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Hole-Transport Material Advances Perovskite PV Systems

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A solar panel material has achieved 20.2 percent power-conversion efficiency while reducing the costs of photovoltaic systems. A 3D illustration of fluorine-dithiophene molecules on a surface of perovskite crystals. Courtesy of Sven M. Hein/EPFL. Perovskite materials have become popular for light-harvesting films. However, they require expensive hole-transporting materials whose function is to move positive charges generated when light hits the perovskite film. Now, a research team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) has engineered a hole-transporting...Read full article

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    Published: January 2016
    Research & TechnologyEPFLSwitzerlandEuropeLausannePVsolarMaterialsMohammad NazeeruddinTech Pulse

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