Translucent solar cells developed in SKorea

A team of researchers in South Korea announced a potential breakthrough in solar cell technology, creating “semi-transparent perovskite solar cells” that could possibly be used as electricity-producing windows in the future, according to their paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

Conventional solars cells are made of crystalline silicon, but it is difficult to make the material translucent, the researchers explained. Other materials are being used to develop semi-transparent solar cells, mainly organic materials, but have low efficiency in converting light to electricity.