Researchers have found a way to improve the performance of an experimental type of solar cell that is thought to hold the key to cheaper and better energy production and storage. the Polish Academy of Sciences of The Institute of Physics and the Polish Academy of Sciences found that grinding the materials for so-called perovskite cells, instead of using a solvent, enabled their production at lower cost and with fewer defects, leading to increased reliability. The so-called "mechanochemistry" technique produced cells with a performance efficiency that peaked at 16.8% , before stabilising at 17.5% .
Researchers have found a way to improve the performance of an experimental type of solar cell that is thought to hold the key to cheaper and better energy production and storage. The Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne found that grinding the materials for so-called perovskite cells, instead of using a solvent, enabled their production at lower cost and with fewer defects, leading to increased reliability. The so-called "mechanochemistry" technique produced cells with a performance efficiency that peaked at 17.5%, before stabilising at 16.8%.