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The research group led by Professor Martin Green has published version 62 of the solar cell efficiency tables. The new version includes 21 new results, a record number for tables.
An international research group led by Professor Martin Green of the University of New South Wales, Australia, has published version 62 of "solar cell efficiency tables" in Progress in Photovoltaics . The scientists say they have added 21 new results to the new tables since December, published here .
“The most notable results are the large increase in the efficiency of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of Physics small area kesterite (CZTSSe) cells, from 13.0% to 14.9%. , and less spectacular increases in the efficiency of small-area organic PV cells, 19.2%, from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and in the efficiency of small-area perovskite cells, 26.0%, from the CAS Semiconductor Institute,” Green told pv magazine.
“Remarkable advances have also been made in the area of ??two-terminal tandem cells, with the efficiency of all-perovskite tandem cells increasing to 29.1% in a 0.05 cm2 device and up to 28.2% in a device larger than 1 cm2, both manufactured by Nanjing University in collaboration with Renshine Solar”, he added.
Greener also underlined that new results have been reported for perovskite/silicon tandem cells with 33.7%, for a 1 cm2 device made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and 28.6% efficiency for a much larger, full-size 258 cm2 cell manufactured by Oxford PV.
“There have also been advances in the area of ??encapsulated modules, with the efficiency of an organic PV module greatly increased from 8.7% to 13.1% in a 57-cell module manufactured by Ways Technical Corporation in collaboration with Nanobit”, he explains. “Similarly, there has been an increase in efficiency of 19.2% in a module of 39 perovskite cells manufactured by UtmoLight and of 24.7% in a much larger module of 112 cells and 1.8 m2 of silicon manufactured by Maxeon. In addition, Avancis has manufactured the first small CIGS module with an efficiency greater than 20%. ”
In version 61 of the tables, published in November, the researchers added five new results. The group has seen significant improvements in all cell categories since 1993, when the tables were first published.
The research group is made up of scientists from the European Commission Joint Research Center, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Germany, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan, the US Department of Energy and the United States National Renewable Energy Laboratory. |
