{"id":180505,"date":"2024-01-14T19:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T01:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-unveil-blueprint-for-affordable-solar-cells-to-power-saudi-arabia-and-beyond"},"modified":"2024-01-14T19:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T01:23:55","slug":"scientists-unveil-blueprint-for-affordable-solar-cells-to-power-saudi-arabia-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/scientists-unveil-blueprint-for-affordable-solar-cells-to-power-saudi-arabia-and-beyond","title":{"rendered":"Scientists unveil blueprint for affordable solar cells to power Saudi Arabia and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-unveil-blueprint-for-affordable-solar-cells-to-power-saudi-arabia-and-beyond2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have unveiled a roadmap for bringing perovskite\/silicon tandem solar cells to market, paving the way for a future powered by abundant, inexpensive clean energy in Saudi Arabia and the world.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of the article, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adh3849\">published<\/a> in <i>Science<\/i>, include Prof. Stefaan De Wolf and his research team at King Abdullah University of <i>Science<\/i> (KAUST) and Technology Solar Center. The team is working on improving solar efficiency to meet Saudi Arabia\u2019 solar targets.<\/p>\n<p>Perovskite\/silicon <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/tandem\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">tandem<\/a> technology combines the strengths of two materials\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/perovskite\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">perovskite<\/a>\u2019s efficient light absorption and silicon\u2019s long-term stability\u2014to achieve record-breaking efficiency. In 2023, the De Wolf laboratory reported two <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/world+records\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">world records<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/power+conversion+efficiency\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">power conversion efficiency<\/a>, with five achieved globally in the same year, showing rapid progress in perovskite\/silicon tandem technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have unveiled a roadmap for bringing perovskite\/silicon tandem solar cells to market, paving the way for a future powered by abundant, inexpensive clean energy in Saudi Arabia and the world. The authors of the article, published in Science, include Prof. Stefaan De Wolf and his research team at King Abdullah University of Science (KAUST) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180505","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\/180505","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}