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Scientists have figured out a way to mass-produce solar panels made out of a so-called miracle material that can massively boost their efficiency.
Perovskite has been hailed for its potential to revolutionize renewable energy, however, converting its record-breaking success in the lab into commercial solar panels has proved difficult due to durability and reliability issues.
A major study into possible production methods for the technology has now concluded that a vacuum-based approach could allow the next-generation solar panels to be manufactured on a commercial scale.
A team led by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the US found that vacuum processes – used to make everything from smartphones to LEDs – held significant advantages over the solvent-based approach usually used to make lab-scale solar cells.
“Vacuum-based processes have proven themselves in the industry for many decades,” said Ulrich W. Paetzold, a professor at the Institute of Microstructure Technology and Light Technology Institute at KIT.
“Although they can decisively advance the commercialization of solar cells, they are heavily underrepresented.”
Solar cells that use a combination of perovskite and silicon have demonstrated vastly more potential to generate electricity from the Sun’s energy compared to traditional silicon cells.
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