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Maybe I missed it in the article, but what was considered a good efficiency prior to this?
by sejje 13y ago
Maybe I missed it in the article, but what was considered a good efficiency prior to this?
- brownBananas 13y ago> Back in May 2013, the German-French team of Fraunhofer ISE, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin had already announced a solar cell with 43.6% efficiency. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-09-world-solar-cell-efficiency.html#jCp http://phys.org/news/2013-09-world-solar-cell-efficiency.htm...
- diydsp 13y agosomeone on wikipedia has been maintaining a beautiful image of the history of solar cell efficiency for various technologies.. let's see if this has been added yet. It looks 1. No, and 2. There was a recent discovery by Sharp of 44.4%. Main page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PVeff%28rev130923%29a.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PVeff%28rev130923%29a.jpg
- contingencies 13y agoImage is credited to L.L. Kazmerski of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO. Have a look at the types of markers shown on the image key again. While vast amounts of resources are being dumped on efficient electricity extraction through expensive, advanced manufacturing processes, some are looking at going back to organics, which NREL classes as 'emerging'. Apparently hybrid organic/electrical photovoltaics date back to 1958, and can produce 11.1% (roughly 1/3-1/2 of currently available manufactured products) efficiency while remaining cheap to produce at high volumes. Mitsubishi is one of the research leaders. More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_solar_cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_solar_cell