Sentences with phrase «cell efficiency record»

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Earlier this year, for instance, Heliatek capitalised on its researchers» know - how to set a new world record for solar - cell efficiency.

With this technique, the Empa team has again been able to significantly increase the energy conversion efficiency from sunlight into electricity using CIGS thin film solar cells on flexible plastic foils — to a new record level of 20.4 %, representing a marked improvement over the previous record of 18.7 % established by the same team in May 2011.

These multi-junction solar cells have set world records in efficiency, approaching 50 percent, but they require expensive manufacturing techniques, limiting them to niche applications like satellites or requiring mirrors to concentrate sunlight on tiny cells (ClimateWire, Oct. 20, 2014).

Loi's group recently published a paper describing a record - breaking nine - percent efficiency in a hybrid - perovskite solar cell containing harmless tin instead of lead.

In fact, selenium is an integral part of the formulation that resulted in a world record for solar cell efficiency.

«Efficiency record for black silicon solar cells jumps to 22.1 %.»

Yesterday, Spectrolab announced that its newest triple - junction solar cells had achieved the world record in efficiency, converting 41.6 percent of specially concentrated sunlight into electricity.

An efficiency of 32.5 % was achieved using a gallium indium phosphide (GaInP) top cell, which is a similar structure to the previous record efficiency of 29.8 % announced in January 2016.

The research groups created tandem solar cells with record efficiencies of converting sunlight into electricity under 1 - sun illumination.

And the triple - junction solar cell may not hold the efficiency record for long.

For perovskite solar cells world record efficiencies have been obtained from compositional engineering of the hybrid organic - inorganic perovskite light absorber material.

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Researchers at Aalto University have produced black silicon solar cells capable of reaching a 22.1 percent conversion efficiency, which is a full 4 percent increase from the previous record.

According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which has tracked cell efficiencies since 1975, the current polycrystalline module efficiency record stands at 21.9 percent.

University of Delaware (UD) researchers have managed to crank up the efficiency of silicon solar cells to a record - breaking 42.8 percent under standard terrestrial sunlight conditions.

The new record is an important milestone on the path to the 50 percent efficiency goal set by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Very High Efficiency Solar Cell (VHESC) program to develop affordable, portable solar cell batteryefficiency goal set by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Very High Efficiency Solar Cell (VHESC) program to develop affordable, portable solar cell batteryEfficiency Solar Cell (VHESC) program to develop affordable, portable solar cell battery chargCell (VHESC) program to develop affordable, portable solar cell battery chargcell battery chargers.

Researchers at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have created tandem solar cells with record efficiencies of converting sunlight into electricity under 1 - sun illumination.

Last summer, a group of researchers were able to break the world record for laboratory efficiency by reaching 44.7 % with a new cell, with 50 % as the ultimate goal.

2010 SunPower announces a world - record monocrystalline polysilicon prototype cell with efficiency of 24.2 %.

Solar cells using the CZTS technology reached a record 11.1 % efficiency late last year.

The Previous Record was 17.6 % Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have made flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) with a light - conversion efficiency of 18.7

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