{"id":227499,"date":"2025-12-20T01:20:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/vapor-deposition-method-delivers-unprecedented-durability-in-perovskite-silicon-tandem-solar-cells"},"modified":"2025-12-20T01:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:20:43","slug":"vapor-deposition-method-delivers-unprecedented-durability-in-perovskite-silicon-tandem-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/vapor-deposition-method-delivers-unprecedented-durability-in-perovskite-silicon-tandem-solar-cells","title":{"rendered":"Vapor-deposition method delivers unprecedented durability in perovskite\u2013silicon tandem solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vapor-deposition-method-delivers-unprecedented-durability-in-perovskite-silicon-tandem-solar-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NUS researchers have developed a vapor-deposition method that dramatically improves the long-term and high-temperature stability of perovskite-silicon (Si) tandem solar cells. The findings were published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adz3698\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Science<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time vapor deposition has been successfully applied to industrial micrometer-textured silicon wafers, the actual wafer structure used in commercial solar cell manufacturing, marking a major milestone for translating laboratory-scale tandem solar cells into real-world products.<\/p>\n<p>The new method enables conformal, high-quality perovskite growth on industrial micrometer-scale textured silicon wafers, a critical requirement for mass production, and delivers more than 30% power-conversion efficiency with operational stability far exceeding 2,000 hours, including <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-06-scientists-stable-perovskite-tandem-solar.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">T\u2089\u2080 lifetimes <\/a>\u2014the time taken for performance to drop to 90% of initial output\u2014of over 1,400 hours at 85\u00b0C under 1-sun illumination, a standard benchmark in solar energy representing a light intensity of 1,000 watts per square meter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NUS researchers have developed a vapor-deposition method that dramatically improves the long-term and high-temperature stability of perovskite-silicon (Si) tandem solar cells. The findings were published in Science. This is the first time vapor deposition has been successfully applied to industrial micrometer-textured silicon wafers, the actual wafer structure used in commercial solar cell manufacturing, marking a [\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-227499","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\/227499","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=227499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}