Disorder on the nanoscale may be responsible for solar-cell efficiency
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 05:50
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —In the past few years, perovskite solar cells have made large leaps forward in efficiency, recently achieving energy conversion with up to 16 percent efficiency. These simple and promising devices are easy enough to make and are made up of earth abundant materials, but little work has been done to explore their atomic makeup.