From non-renewable to renewable sources of energy, world is transitioning to newer technologies of energy development. To safeguard the future, it is of utmost importance to stop wasting natural non-renewable resources and move towards the more efficient renewable sources.

With cutting edge scientific discovery, perovskites are now considered to be an extraordinary material which has the capability of generating maximum energy from sun than any other available sources. In the latest research reports, Lewis base molecules were used for surface passivation and creating strong bonding between the cell layers.

BENEFITS OF PEROVSKITE SOLAR CELLS

With the increase in population and reduction of carbon usage, renewable solar energy is considered to be a trusted energy source with considerably high usage value. Solar energy has the untapped potential of meeting all future demands. Governments are encouraging solar installations to underpin the concern of reducing dependency on fossil fuels and minimize the carbon emissions from burning them.

It was noticed that post COVID, there had been a higher than anticipated solar demands across all regions.

Perovskite solar cells has high conversion efficiency of light photon to electron with its potential to become cheap and highly efficient alternative to conventional silicon solar cells.

Perovskites can be modified to respond to different colours in the solar spectrum by changing the material composition. It has surpassed all the thin-film technologies in power conversion efficiency and have demonstrated high performance with flexibility. Such flexibility allows the perovskite cells to be combined with a different absorber material to deliver more power.

COMMERCIAL SCALABILITY

A number of challenges remain in the path of perovskite collar cells to become more scalable to a competitive commercial technology. ‘Perovskite’ has got their name for their crystal structure. They have high decomposition rate with reaction to moisture and oxygen or on prolonged exposure to light, heat and voltage.

At the latest research studies, scientists have achieved a breakthrough of the scalability issue and the cells are capable to maintain 90% of their initial performance after continuous operation for 1400 hours.

Such became possible with the use of Ammonium for stability, efficiency and scalability of the perovskite solar cells.

The test devices also showed strong thermal stability, continuing to function with no efficiency loss after 3,300 hours running at 65° C (149° F). As per the author Jie Zhao, a PhD student at Monash University,

In the evolving need of sustainable energy resources, solar energy is the most abundant and naturally available which has the low cost scalability and stability. Perovskite solar cells are one of the most promising inventions of semiconductor material which is more cost efficient than other solar cells.