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Thin-film tandems: a US snapshot

Tandem solar-cell technology featuring silicon has been widely researched but materials such as perovskites, paired with established thin-film solar or with other perovskite cells, are pointing to a new development path.

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Valerie Thompson

06 Sep 2024

Perovskite solar modules in outdoor testing at the DOE-funded PACT. | Photo: Werner Slocum/NREL

Silicon-free tandem solar cells are a topic of research for commercial, academic, and institutional labs in the United States. Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have published a tandem technology roadmap in the journal Joule which included emerging all-organic, all-perovskite tandem combinations and cadmium telluride (CdTe) and copper …

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