14 December 2020, 4:06 am EST By
Researchers are now close to reaching their long-term target of over 30% solar cell efficiency for the perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell category. At 29.15%, it surpassed the current solar cell efficiency world record of 28%.
According to a press statement from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB), the HZB development team led by Bernd Stannowski and Steve Albrecht already received official certification for the recent value from the CalLab of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE).
New tandem solar cell efficiency world record
Improving the solar cell efficiency of can highly increase the energy produced using the same surface area and similar amount of sunshine, which eventually led to a new world record for the perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell. This category is just one of numerous types of cell technologies currently available for converting solar energy into electricity, according to Science Alert.