{"id":163208,"date":"2023-05-02T07:27:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T12:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/new-inorganic-wide-bandgap-perovskite-subcells-that-are-both-efficient-and-stable"},"modified":"2023-05-02T07:27:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T12:27:03","slug":"new-inorganic-wide-bandgap-perovskite-subcells-that-are-both-efficient-and-stable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/new-inorganic-wide-bandgap-perovskite-subcells-that-are-both-efficient-and-stable","title":{"rendered":"New inorganic wide-bandgap perovskite subcells that are both efficient and stable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-inorganic-wide-bandgap-perovskite-subcells-that-are-both-efficient-and-stable2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All-perovskite tandem solar cells, stacks of p-n junctions formed from perovskites with different energy bandgaps, have the potential of achieving higher efficiencies than conventional single-junction solar cells. So far, however, most proposed all-perovskite tandem cells have not achieved the desired power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), often due to difficulties associated with creating suitable narrow-and wide-bandgap subcells.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Nanjing University and University of Toronto recently developed new inorganic wide-bandgap perovskite subcells that could increase the PCEs and stability of these promising <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/solar+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar cells<\/a>. Their design, introduced in a paper in <i><i>Nature<\/i> Energy<\/i>, involves the insertion of a passivating dipole layer at the interface between organic transport layers and inorganic perovskites within the cells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur research group has been focusing on improving the PCEs of all-perovskite tandem solar cells, which have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-04372-8\">broken the world record several times<\/a> and have been included in the \u2018solar cell efficiency tables,\u2019\u201d Hairen Tan, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Tech Xplore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All-perovskite tandem solar cells, stacks of p-n junctions formed from perovskites with different energy bandgaps, have the potential of achieving higher efficiencies than conventional single-junction solar cells. So far, however, most proposed all-perovskite tandem cells have not achieved the desired power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), often due to difficulties associated with creating suitable narrow-and wide-bandgap subcells. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163208","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}