{"id":225923,"date":"2025-11-26T01:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/the-worlds-most-efficient-solar-cell-chinese-researchers-explain-how-they-designed-and-built-it"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:33:02","slug":"the-worlds-most-efficient-solar-cell-chinese-researchers-explain-how-they-designed-and-built-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/the-worlds-most-efficient-solar-cell-chinese-researchers-explain-how-they-designed-and-built-it","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s most efficient solar cell: Chinese researchers explain how they designed and built it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-most-efficient-solar-cell-chinese-researchers-explain-how-they-designed-and-built-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier in 2025, Chinese solar manufacturer Longi announced it had built the world\u2019s most efficient solar cell. The hybrid interdigitated back-contact (HIBC) cell achieved 27.81% efficiency, which was verified by Germany\u2019s Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH).<\/p>\n<p>Now, in a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-09681-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, researchers are sharing the technical details of their breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>For solar technology to deliver on its promise, solar cells and panels must convert as much sunlight as possible into energy. Typically, standard cells achieve up to 26% efficiency, that is, they convert 26% of the sunlight hitting them into electrical energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in 2025, Chinese solar manufacturer Longi announced it had built the world\u2019s most efficient solar cell. The hybrid interdigitated back-contact (HIBC) cell achieved 27.81% efficiency, which was verified by Germany\u2019s Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH). Now, in a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers are sharing the technical details of 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-225923","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\/225923","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=225923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}