{"id":237567,"date":"2026-05-22T03:17:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/perovskite-silicon-tandem-solar-cells-reach-32-89-certified-efficiency-with-peak-selective-passivation-strategy"},"modified":"2026-05-22T03:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:17:35","slug":"perovskite-silicon-tandem-solar-cells-reach-32-89-certified-efficiency-with-peak-selective-passivation-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/perovskite-silicon-tandem-solar-cells-reach-32-89-certified-efficiency-with-peak-selective-passivation-strategy","title":{"rendered":"Perovskite\/silicon tandem solar cells reach 32.89% certified efficiency with peak-selective passivation strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/perovskite-silicon-tandem-solar-cells-reach-32-89-certified-efficiency-with-peak-selective-passivation-strategy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of Chinese scientists has developed a new passivation strategy that significantly improves both the efficiency and operational stability of perovskite\/silicon tandem solar cells. The study has been published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.matt.2026.102824\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Matter<\/i><\/a> on May 21.<\/p>\n<p>Perovskite\/silicon tandem solar cells combine a top perovskite layer, which efficiently converts sunlight into electricity, with a silicon bottom substrate. These solar cells hold great potential for lightweight, high-efficiency applications in the photovoltaic field, with the current world efficiency record reaching 35.0%.<\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2026-05-scalable-perovskite-photovoltaics-fast-solvent.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">pyramid-textured surface<\/a> of industrial silicon substrates makes it difficult to deposit a uniform perovskite top layer, which often leads to localized electrical leakage and thus limits the commercial prospects of these tandem cells.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Chinese scientists has developed a new passivation strategy that significantly improves both the efficiency and operational stability of perovskite\/silicon tandem solar cells. The study has been published in the journal Matter on May 21. Perovskite\/silicon tandem solar cells combine a top perovskite layer, which efficiently converts sunlight into electricity, with a silicon [\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-237567","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\/237567","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=237567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}