For his YouTube channel Undecided with Matt Ferrell, the renewables youtuber goes for a deep dive of the latest and upcoming developments in perovskites and tandem solar cells:
Photovoltaic modules based on perovskite silicon tandem solar cells have the potential to achieve higher efficiencies than today's silicon modules. A research team at Fraunhofer ISE has now produced a module with an efficiency of 25 per cent using perovskite silicon tandem solar cells from Oxford PV.
Rethink Energy has published a new report analyzing the cost breakdown of silicon solar modules through to 2040, with particular detail given to usage rates pf polysilicon, high-purity quartz, and silver paste, as well as technological improvements in the Czochralski Process and wafer production.
RWE has installed 20,000 bifacial solar modules in the Spanish province of Badajoz, totalling 250 megawatts of solar capacity in operation or under construction in Spain.
On 1 August 2023, Trina Solar has manufactured the first 210mm n-type i-TOPCon cells at its net-zero production park in Qinghai province. Production there is to be ramped up to five gigawatts.
The efficiency was confirmed by Fraunhofer ISE. The cell was manufactured at the factory in Brandenburg an der Havel, eastern Germany. There, Oxford PV is researching new types of perovskite stack cells.
With the LSI fault location set from Solartektor, the solar installer can exactly determine a possible fault in a solar array.
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, using a new antireflection coating, have successfully increased the efficiency of the best four-junction solar cell to date from 46.1 to 47.6 per cent.
Q Cells has set a new world-record tandem cell efficiency of 28.7% in collaboration with researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin using a Q.antum-based silicon bottom cell in combination with a perovskite-based top cell.
Researchers in Berlin have achieved an efficiency of 29.8 per cent with a tandem cell made of silicon and perovskite. Among other things, they have improved the boundary layers between the semiconductors.
Q Cells reached an agreement to license use of its patent-protected cell passivation technology with a German solar module manufacturer.
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE were able to achieve a record conversion efficiency of 68.9% with a thin film photovoltaic cell under monochromatic laser light.
Testing at the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Hamelin, Germany, has confirmed that the conversion efficiency of N-type monocrystalline bifacial TopCon cells developed at Longi’s cell R&D center has reached 25.09%.
Fraunhofer ISE developed a new monolithic triple-junction solar cell – or more specifically, a III-V//Si tandem solar cell – that converts 35.9 % of sunlight into electrical energy.
Recently, JinkoSolar has achieved a record large-area N-type monocrystalline silicon solar cell conversion efficiency of 24.9 per cent, independently confirmed by the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hamelin (ISFH), Germany.
Fraunhofer ISE is reporting a new record efficiency of 25.9 percent for a III-V/Si tandem solar cell grown directly on silicon.
