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US researchers make breakthrough in 'quantum dot' perovskite PV

Researchers at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have fashioned a next-generation perovskite PV cell using so-called "quantum dots" that has been shown to have better than 10% efficiency.

NREL researchers with solutions of all-inorganic perovskite quantum dots, showing intense photoluminescence when illuminated with UV light
NREL researchers with solutions of all-inorganic perovskite quantum dots, showing intense photoluminescence when illuminated with UV light
  • Darius Snieckus in London
Published 7 October 2016, 08:33Updated 25 October 2016, 15:56