Eco Factor: World’s most efficient solar cell converts 43% incident sunlight into electricity.
Solar energy is one stream of technology which sees new records quite regularly. The enormous potential of the technology has kept researcher busy in developing next-gen solar cells which convert a good enough amount of incident light into electricity. The latest news has come from the University of South Wales in Sydney, Australia where researchers have succeeded in developing solar cells that converts 43% incident light into electricity.
They might be winning by a whisker as the previous record holds at 42.7%, but the new cell, which actually is a multi-cell combination to allow the cell harness the red to infrared spectrum of light, uses expensive materials like gallium, phosphorous, indium and arsenic and other expensive semiconductors to raise the efficiency bar, which might not make the cells practical for home and industrial use, but does show the potential of solar cells, which can be improved upon to lower its cost.
Via: Discovery
