{"id":174682,"date":"2023-10-25T01:10:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T06:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/new-design-solves-stability-and-efficiency-of-perovskite-solar-cells"},"modified":"2023-10-25T01:10:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T06:10:21","slug":"new-design-solves-stability-and-efficiency-of-perovskite-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/new-design-solves-stability-and-efficiency-of-perovskite-solar-cells","title":{"rendered":"New design solves stability and efficiency of perovskite solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-design-solves-stability-and-efficiency-of-perovskite-solar-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at EPFL and Northwestern University have unveiled a groundbreaking design for perovskite solar cells, creating one of the most stable PSCs with a power-conversion efficiency above 25%, paving the way for future commercialization.<\/p>\n<p>Perovskite <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/solar+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar cells<\/a> (PSCs) stand at the forefront of solar energy innovation, and have drawn a lot of attention for their power-conversion efficiency and cost-effective manufacturing. But the way to commercialization of PSCs still has a hurdle to overcome: achieving both <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/high+efficiency\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high efficiency<\/a> and long-term <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/stability\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stability<\/a>, especially in challenging environmental conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The solution lies in the interplay between the layers of PSCs, which has proven to be a double-edged sword. The layers can enhance the cells\u2019 performance but also cause them to degrade too quickly for regular use in everyday life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at EPFL and Northwestern University have unveiled a groundbreaking design for perovskite solar cells, creating one of the most stable PSCs with a power-conversion efficiency above 25%, paving the way for future commercialization. Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) stand at the forefront of solar energy innovation, and have drawn a lot of attention for their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174682","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\/174682","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}