{"id":199141,"date":"2024-11-09T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T22:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-make-solar-breakthrough-that-could-majorly-impact-future-of-energy-a-critical-step"},"modified":"2024-11-09T16:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T22:25:21","slug":"scientists-make-solar-breakthrough-that-could-majorly-impact-future-of-energy-a-critical-step","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-make-solar-breakthrough-that-could-majorly-impact-future-of-energy-a-critical-step","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make solar breakthrough that could majorly impact future of energy: \u2018A critical step\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xfC4gwX4keI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first involved integrating the hole-selective materials and the perovskite layers, to simplify the manufacturing process. The second involved replacing traditional organic materials, such as fullerene and bathocuproine, with tin oxide, an inorganic electron transport layer, in a process known as the atomic layer deposition method,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/2024\/10\/15\/perovskite-solar-cell-achieves-higher-stability-via-new-tin-oxide-layer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">per<\/a> PV\u2019s description.<\/p>\n<p>Labspeak aside, the big takeaway is that the changes resulted in a 25% efficiency, meaning the cells can turn a quarter of the sunlight hitting them into energy. What\u2019s more, they maintained 95% of their efficiency after 2,000 hours of operation, per the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe device structure reported in this study represents the most simplified architecture in the current field of perovskite solar cells, offering significant advantages for industrialization,\u201d study co-author Gao Danpeng <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pv-magazine.com\/2024\/10\/15\/perovskite-solar-cell-achieves-higher-stability-via-new-tin-oxide-layer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">said<\/a> in the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe first involved integrating the hole-selective materials and the perovskite layers, to simplify the manufacturing process. The second involved replacing traditional organic materials, such as fullerene and bathocuproine, with tin oxide, an inorganic electron transport layer, in a process known as the atomic layer deposition method,\u201d per PV\u2019s description. Labspeak aside, the big takeaway is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199141","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\/199141","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}