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Silicon/Perovskite Solar Panels Can Reach 34% Efficiency, Researchers Show
An anonymous reader shared this report from Ars Technica: [I]t might be worth spending more to get a panel that converts more of the incoming sunlight to electricity, since it allows you to get more out of the price paid to get each panel installed. But silicon panels are already pushing up again...
Which means our best chance for a major boost in panel efficiency may be to combine silicon with an additional photovoltaic material. One team of researchers"sent a sample to a European test lab, which came out with an efficiency of 33.7 percent," Ars Technica notes. "For comparison, the maximum efficiency for silicon alone is in the area of 27 percent, so that represents a very significant boost and is one of the highest perovskite/silicon combinations ever reported."
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