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KAUST joins the 30% club

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) set a world record in April with a perovskite-silicon tandem cell efficiency of 33.2%, making it the third entity to push the technology past 30%. Stefaan De Wolf, KAUST Professor of Material Science and Engineering, speaks to pv magazine about the achievement and the latest advances in tandem cell tech.

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Mark Hutchins

09 Jun 2023

The European Solar Test Installation verified KAUST’s achievement of 33.2% cell efficiency. | Photo: Erkan Aydin/KAUST

pv magazine: Congratulations on setting this new record for tandem cell efficiency. Can you tell us a bit more about the device? What did you do to achieve such an impressive result?Stefaan De Wolf: We have worked on perovskite-silicon tandems for several years already. In our group we work on both the silicon and the …

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