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Study Discovers How Energy is Lost During Singlet Fission in Solar Cells
Written by AZoMMar 11 2021
Solar energy is considered one of the most significant eco-friendly and fossil-free sustainable sources of electricity. The existing silicon-based solar cells use only around 33% of the energy in sunlight and transform it into electricity.
View from the inside of the magneto-optic instrument which helps Yuttapoom Puttisong and his team to develop a protocol in searching for energy loss in singlet fission. Image Credit: Thor Balkhed.
The reason is the packets of light, or photons, present in the sun’s beams possess energy that is either too little to be absorbed by the solar cell, or too high, such that part of the energy is released as waste heat. This optimum theoretical efficiency is called the Shockley-Queisser limit.
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