As células solares tandem prometem revolucionar a transição para a energia limpa, mas a escassez de materiais significa que elas precisam ser reprojetadas com urgência.
- Postdoctoral Researcher in Photovoltaic Engineering, University of Oxford
Tandem solar cells promise to revolutionise the clean energy transition – but a shortage of materials means they must urgently be redesigned.
Sejauh ini, jenis silikon lebih mahal digunakan untuk menghasilkan panel surya efisiensi tinggi. Kini, ada cara penggunaan bahan baku lebih murah yang akan memotong biaya tenaga surya untuk semua.
Until now, a more expensive type of silicon was used to produce the highest-efficiency solar panels. Now there’s a way to use cheaper raw materials, cutting the cost of solar power for everyone.
The process of manufacturing gallium-doped solar panels was under a patent until last year. It’s only now that this method has started to pick up steam.
Solar windows would need to trap enough light to generate power, while letting through enough to keep buildings light. Thankfully, newly developed semitransparent cells offer to do just that.
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