Team of physicists find perovskite can be used in conventional solar cell architecture
(Phys.org) —A team of physicists working at Oxford University in the UK has found that it's possible to use some types of perovskite as a replacement for thin film silicon cells using the same basic processing technique and still get power efficiencies of 15 percent. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the researchers report that they have discovered that using a bubble-like nanostructure, or an insulating scaffold to create thin film solar cells is unnecessary—the new kind of cell is able to serve as a semiconductor on its own. Impressed by the advancements made by the research team at Oxford, Michael McGehee of Stanford University has published a News & Views commentary in the same journal describing the new work and the likelihood that perovskite might supplant silicon as the basis for most solar cells.