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"Printed solar cells are highly efficient, flexible, and decreasing in cost.
Unlike traditional silicon panels, which are rigid and heavy, solar cells could
be deployed in previously impossible ways to generate energy from the sun. This
includes being adhered to buildings, vehicles, clothing and wearables.
However, scaling up production while maintaining efficiency has long been a
hurdle for printed solar cell technology. Many researchers have only achieved
efficiency levels of one or two per cent with a full printed flexible solar
panel.
In a remarkable feat, our scientists have developed a new method for producing
fully roll-to-roll printed, flexible solar cells that deliver unprecedented
levels of efficiency. Increased efficiency means more power is generated from
the same amount of sunlight.
Our new method has been able to produce small lab-scale solar cells that are
near the efficiency of typical solar panels. But to bring them into the real
world, they need to be bigger.
That's why the real game changer is our achievement of 11 per cent efficiency
for 50 cm² large-scale solar panels comprising interconnected solar cells.
These record results were achieved in a project we led in collaboration with
researchers from the University of Cambridge, Monash University, the University
of Sydney and the University of New South Wales. This research was published in
the leading journal
Nature Communications."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
