{"id":139699,"date":"2022-05-22T15:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T20:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/new-quantum-well-solar-cell-just-set-a-world-record-for-efficiency"},"modified":"2022-05-22T15:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T20:23:49","slug":"new-quantum-well-solar-cell-just-set-a-world-record-for-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/new-quantum-well-solar-cell-just-set-a-world-record-for-efficiency","title":{"rendered":"New Quantum Well Solar Cell Just Set a World Record For Efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-quantum-well-solar-cell-just-set-a-world-record-for-efficiency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cthere\u2019s a new record to report: a new solar cell has hit 39.5 percent efficiency \u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists keep on pushing the efficiency of solar panels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/researchers-have-broken-the-record-for-solar-panel-efficiency-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">higher<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-beat-another-solar-cell-efficiency-world-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">higher<\/a>, and there\u2019s a new record to report: a new solar cell has hit 39.5 percent efficiency under the standard 1-sun global illumination conditions.<\/p>\n<p>That 1-sun marker is simply a standardized way of measuring a fixed amount of sunlight, and almost 40 percent of that radiation can now be converted into electricity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/solar-cell-technology-has-toppled-three-new-records-just-this-month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The previous record<\/a> for this type of solar panel material was 39.2 percent efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>There are more types of solar cells around than you might have realized. The type used here, triple-junction III-V tandem solar cells, are often deployed in satellites and space vehicles, though they have plenty of potential here on solid ground as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cthere\u2019s a new record to report: a new solar cell has hit 39.5 percent efficiency \u201d. Scientists keep on pushing the efficiency of solar panels higher and higher, and there\u2019s a new record to report: a new solar cell has hit 39.5 percent efficiency under the standard 1-sun global illumination conditions. That 1-sun marker is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,2028,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-satellites","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}