{"id":239898,"date":"2026-06-28T23:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/perovskite-solar-cells-need-decades-long-durability-new-work-shows-which-fast-aging-tests-come-closest"},"modified":"2026-06-28T23:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:09:05","slug":"perovskite-solar-cells-need-decades-long-durability-new-work-shows-which-fast-aging-tests-come-closest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/perovskite-solar-cells-need-decades-long-durability-new-work-shows-which-fast-aging-tests-come-closest","title":{"rendered":"Perovskite solar cells need decades-long durability. New work shows which fast-aging tests come closest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/perovskite-solar-cells-need-decades-long-durability-new-work-shows-which-fast-aging-tests-come-closest.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) could conquer the mass market within a few years, perhaps even being produced in Europe. Their large-scale production is highly cost-effective, and unlike silicon solar cells, their production is less energy-intensive. However, perovskite solar cells ideally need to achieve decades-long warranties, which remains a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>To assess their long-term stability, various test methods are used to accelerate aging. But how accurately do these methods reflect the actual degradation processes? A new <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2542435126002229\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> in <i>Joule<\/i> by a team led by Dr. Carolin Ulbrich (HZB) and Andreas Bartelt (HTW Berlin) now answers this question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) could conquer the mass market within a few years, perhaps even being produced in Europe. Their large-scale production is highly cost-effective, and unlike silicon solar cells, their production is less energy-intensive. However, perovskite solar cells ideally need to achieve decades-long warranties, which remains a challenge. To assess their long-term stability, various [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239898","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}