Perovskite solar cells are a remarkably cheap solar cell technology and have achieved remarkable growth since their inception a decade ago, sharply increasing in efficiency from 3.8% to 25.2%, near to their theoretical efficiency. Thus, the perovskite solar cell could be the future of solar energy. Perovskite solar cells are a new technology and still needs to be scaled up for commercial applications, but perovskites have the potential to revolutionise the energy harvesting market, with cheap, high efficiency solar energy in the near future. In this video, we’ll explore perovskite solar panels and how they might energize our future.

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We’d like to give a special thank you to Samuele from Bullaki ltd, for permission to use, and sending us, fantastic lab footage in the manufacturing of perovskite solar cells:

Scientific Video Protocols (Bullaki ltd), Back-Contact Perovskite Solar Cells | Prof. Sir Richard Friend et al. (University of Cambridge) https://youtu.be/nvuNC29TvOY;

Bullaki ltd, Spray Coated Perovskite Solar Cells, https://youtu.be/ayYOy7ycP_k.

Other Sources:

Global Energy Graphs – https://ourworldindata.org/energy
SEM Images of OPV:
Cardinaletti, Ilaria, et al. “Toward bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells with thermally stable active layer morphology.” Journal of Photonics for Energy 4.1 (2014): 040997.

Perovskite Review:
Roy, Priyanka, et al. “A review on perovskite solar cells: Evolution of architecture, fabrication techniques, commercialization issues and status.” Solar Energy 198 (2020): 665-688.

Revolutionizing solar power with perovskites | Sam Stranks | HT Summit 2017 – https://youtu.be/bXJysl6-5dk

NREL Chart – https://www.nrel.gov/pv/cell-efficiency.html

Solar Cell Manufacturing:

Perovskite Stock:
Stock footage provided by Videvo, downloaded from www.videvo.net

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCdpOO3n8IE

References:

[1] – Revolutionizing solar power with perovskites | Sam Stranks | HT Summit 2017
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXJysl6-5dk)
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00:00 – Introduction
01:46 – Some Basic Solar Cell Physics
02:17 – Silicon
03:12 – Organic Solar Cells
03:52 – Perovskite Solar Cells
05:18 – Tandem Solar Cells
06:02 – The Future of Perovskites
07:13 – Outro

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