Stanford researchers have developed a method to fabricate highly efficient Si/TMDs tandem solar cells which aims to break the 30% efficiency barrier with low cost and increased reliability.
Engineers in Prof. Fritz Prinz's laboratory have developed a low cost, scalable method to fabricate anti-reflective, highly conductive metal silicide nanowires electrodes for photovoltaic cells.
These light trapping solar cell structures increase optical absorption and carrier collection, improving efficiency by 24%, while significantly reducing the solar cell active layer thickness and thus lowering cost.
A team of Stanford and MIT researchers developed a perovskite/silicon multijunction solar cell designed to surpass the photovoltaic efficiency limits of silicon while utilizing existing manufacturing capabilities.