{"id":21852,"date":"2016-02-09T22:47:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T06:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/heliatek-claims-new-conversion-efficiency-record-for-organic-pv-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:12:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:12:14","slug":"heliatek-claims-new-conversion-efficiency-record-for-organic-pv-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/heliatek-claims-new-conversion-efficiency-record-for-organic-pv-cells","title":{"rendered":"Heliatek claims new conversion efficiency record for organic PV cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heliatek-claims-new-conversion-efficiency-record-for-organic-pv-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>German solar technology firm Heliatek claims to have outdone itself by setting a new world record for directly converting sunlight into electricity using organic photovoltaic cells. In 2012 it claimed a then world record <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/heliatek-organic-solar-cell-efficiency-record\/22358\/\" target=\"_blank\">10.7 percent conversion efficiency<\/a> and said it was gunning for 15 percent in the near future. This week it announced it\u2019s halfway there, achieving a new record of 13.2 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Heliatek says its R&amp;D teams achieved the new record using a multi-junction cell and that the measurement was independently confirmed by Fraunhofer CSP\u2019s solar testing facility. While traditional silicon cells have achieved higher levels of conversion efficiency, organic cells are also pursued because they can be produced more cheaply and are also more flexible.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the firm claims that \u201cthe excellent low light and high temperature behavior of the organic semiconductor\u201d in the new cells makes them equivalent to the electricity generation capability of conventional solar cells with 16\u201317 percent efficiency under real world conditions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/organic-photovoltaic-cell-solar-conversion-record-heliatek\/41721\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German solar technology firm Heliatek claims to have outdone itself by setting a new world record for directly converting sunlight into electricity using organic photovoltaic cells. In 2012 it claimed a then world record 10.7 percent conversion efficiency and said it was gunning for 15 percent in the near future. This week it announced it\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21852","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\/21852","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68535,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21852\/revisions\/68535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}