Solar cell technology has reached 25% efficiency, beating the 24.7% milestone.
The University of New South Wales’ ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence used new knowledge about the sun’s light spectrum to build their cells.
Centre Executive Research Director, Scientia Professor Martin Green said:
“Improvements in understanding atmospheric effects upon the colour content of sunlight led to a revision of the standard spectrum in April. The new spectrum has a higher energy content both down the blue end of the spectrum and at the opposite red end with, dare I say it, relatively less green.”
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