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Materials for energy

Materials for energy

The search for silicon’s successor

21 Nov 2018
This article first appeared in the 2018 Physics World Focus on Energy Technologies under the headline "The generation game"

Jon Major assesses how the materials used to make solar photovoltaic cells have evolved from first-generation silicon up through thin films, perovskites and (maybe) beyond

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Ten years ago, solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation was something of a curiosity. The entire wor

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Jon Major is a research fellow in the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy at the University of Liverpool, UK, e-mail jonmajor@liverpool.ac.uk
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