Top 10 power stories of 2016
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Rich Pell
- Battery-powered manned helicopter takes flight
- Tesla preps for energy storage market surge
- European ‘Gigafactory’ opens
- New Li-ion transport rules challenge battery makers, customers
- MESA smart grid battery standard is updated
- Open materials database advances battery design
- Top microbattery patent holders could ‘block’ IP development
Perovskite materials are of great interest for the development of solar cells. The efficiency of such cells is being driven up over 20% with new manufacturing techniques, and at the same time can be manufacured on flexible plastic substrates using a roll to roll process for low cost production. The next few years will see more focus on the range of perovskite materials for solar cells.
- New perovskite solar cell design could rival, even outperform silicon
- Perovskite solar cell breakthrough sets new efficiency record
- Vacuum process pushes perovskite solar cell efficiency to 20%
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Large perovskite solar cell efficiency hits 12%
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