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A collaborative effort between NREL and CubicPV has yielded a perovskite minimodule that belongs within the file books.
The 24.0% licensed effectivity marks the primary time a U.S. effort has set a file within the perovskite minimodule class.
The researchers at NREL and at CubicPV, an organization based mostly within the Boston space, made the minimodule consisting of a number of interconnected cells, with a number of steps within the fabrication sequence completed at every location.
Kai Zhu, a senior scientist in NREL’s Chemistry and Nanoscience Heart has beforehand collaborated with CubicPV. Zhu mentioned the complementary experience of the 2 organizations is a testomony not solely to technical excellence, however to the accelerated affect of mixing complementary strengths.
“It’s actually the energy from each events that creates the atmosphere for file setting,” he mentioned. “Each groups can obtain nice outcomes —however collaboration amplifies our affect and units new system benchmarks.” CubicPV’s focus is on tandem photo voltaic units, utilizing perovskites on high of silicon to make a photo voltaic panel that captures extra photons and continues to decrease the price of vitality, whereas NREL’s focus is on advancing manufacturing, sturdiness, and effectivity of perovskite-enabled tandems. The collaboration amplifies every associate’s strengths.
In contrast to silicon, perovskites are created by utilizing a low-temperature (lower than 200°C) ink-based printing or vacuum coating course of with primarily earth-abundant supplies. The expertise has confirmed to be environment friendly at small scale, and work to enhance sturdiness and effectivity on larger-area units, that are prerequisite for business adoption, continues. Perovskites maintain the promise of diversifying the availability chain and rising home manufacturing of photo voltaic photovoltaic modules.
Adam Lorenz, chief expertise officer of CubicPV, mentioned future efforts will give attention to demonstrating sturdy efficiency outside and producing bigger space perovskite modules. “We’re dedicated to leveraging U.S. technical management and collaborating with the highest researchers on the planet to drive cutting-edge perovskite science towards scalable, commercially viable, and sturdy merchandise,” he mentioned.
The earlier file for a perovskite minimodule, printed in Might 2025was 23.9%. The photo voltaic cell effectivity tables are printed twice a 12 months within the journal Progress in Photovoltaics. The subsequent iteration will seem close to 12 months’s finish, which supplies NREL and CubicPV time to surpass their present file.
The U.S. Division of Vitality’s Photo voltaic Vitality Applied sciences Workplace funded the analysis.
Article from NREL. By Wayne Hicks
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