{"id":157682,"date":"2021-12-31T20:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-31T14:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=157682"},"modified":"2022-01-03T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T05:55:21","slug":"making-solar-cells-efficient-cheaper-recyclable-iit-guwahati-finds-a-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/making-solar-cells-efficient-cheaper-recyclable-iit-guwahati-finds-a-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Making solar cells efficient, cheaper, recyclable: IIT-Guwahati finds a way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, have developed Hybrid Perovskite-based Devices that can generate electricity through solar energy at a power conversion efficiency of more than 21%.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the current method to produce electricity through solar energy?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Among all the renewable energy sources, the energy from the sun is considered to be the most sustainable due to its ample availability on the surface of the earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently, silicon-based inorganic solar cells are a major player in the market. However, this technology requires high-temperature processing that results in the high price of solar panels. Further, the recycling of solar panels is perilous and complicated.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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What is an alternative to silicon-based inorganic solar cells?<\/b><\/h5>\n

The perovskite-based devices also called photovoltaic devices are considered as an alternative.<\/span><\/p>\n

These devices are affordable, easy to manufacture, eco-friendly and can be recycled easily. However, perovskite materials are unstable towards humidity and oxygen, which restricts their commercialisation.<\/span><\/p>\n

What have the researchers done to overcome this drawback of perovskite-based devices?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Researchers have used a <\/span>coating of appropriate material on <\/span>perovskite-based devices <\/span>so that it becomes \u2018stable\u2019 or less readily affected by the environment, in this case, humidity and oxygen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article <\/span>\u2018Making solar cells efficient, cheaper, recyclable: IIT-Guwahati finds a way\u2019 <\/b>published in Down To Earth <\/b>on 31st Dec 2021.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the News? Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, have developed Hybrid Perovskite-based Devices that can generate electricity through solar energy at a power conversion efficiency of more than 21%. What is the current method to produce electricity through solar energy? Among all the renewable energy sources, the energy from the… Continue reading Making solar cells efficient, cheaper, recyclable: IIT-Guwahati finds a way<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-157682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}