Solar cell efficiency reaches new levels, decades ahead of expectations

Posted on 3 Jun 2016 by Doug Neale

Australian researchers have broken the record of solar cell efficiency by 44%, nearing levels previously expected to be achieved in 2050.

A team of engineers researching solar cell efficiency, and led by Dr Mark Keevers and Professor Martin Green at The University of New South Wales, have created a new solar cell configuration that can extract more energy from light than previously possible. Since 1961, the Shockley-Queisser Limit established an absolute theoretical limit on traditional solar cell efficiency.…

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