At the cell or module level, these findings won't (can't) make such a large improvement to output. But certainly there are sub-cell fine tuning opportunities to improve overall performance. And stacking improvements helps get performance ever closer to the theoretical maximum. (A computer analogy is a 10x faster CPU doesn't mean you have a 10x faster web browsing experience, because a that experience is the sum of many many interdependent subsystems.)
Examples (not necessarily for this particular finding): -reduce the amount of material needed to create a cell with a particular power output -improve sensitivity to certain parts of the EM spectrum while allowing other frequencies to pass through the cell -improve efficiency under lower light intensity conditions (lower internal resistance)(particularly helpful for using solar in suboptimal orientations or lighting conditions) -improve shading behavior On Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 20:49 Cor van de Water via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > PV is about 15-20% efficient (turning solar power into electricity) > How do you improve that 1000 times? > Cor. > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 6:30 PM Darryl McMahon via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> > wrote: > > > > The paper refers to a 10^3 (1000) times improvement in efficiency of a > > very specific process in the photovoltaic effect. IMO, that won't > > translate into 1000 times improvement at the cell or panel level as > > there's a lot more going on to turn received photons into usable > > electricity. > > > > Darryl > > > > On 6/28/2022 4:07 PM, ev-requ...@lists.evdl.org wrote: > > > Message: 4 > > > Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 10:18:04 -0400 > > > From: Peter Eckhoff<evd...@gmail.com> > > > To: Peri Hartman<pe...@kotatko.com>, Electric Vehicle Discussion List > > > <ev@lists.evdl.org> > > > Subject: Re: [EVDL] 1000 x solar break through. > > > Message-ID: > > > <CADDOj2Cx= > zszdrpbbsepg40vtnjsv6aez+8-no_5kfg4ljh...@mail.gmail.com> > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > > > > This is the paper the article came from: > > > > > > https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe4206 > > > > > > Likely worth a read to find out where the 1000% might have come from. > > > Might be that it's 1000% better than silicon on a $/kw basis. > > > didn't have time to read the article. Gotta go... > > > > > > Peter > > > > -- > > Darryl McMahon > > Freelance Project Manager (sustainable systems) > > > > Climate change is only a problem if you want to survive. > > _______________________________________________ > > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/sub/index.html > > CONFIG: http://lists.evdl.org/options.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/sub/index.html > CONFIG: http://lists.evdl.org/options.cgi/ev-evdl.org > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20220628/d0a57bc3/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/sub/index.html CONFIG: http://lists.evdl.org/options.cgi/ev-evdl.org ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
