A New Solar Material Is Pushing Efficiency Beyond Theoretical Limits
The End of the Ceiling: New Solar Materials Shatter Efficiency Limits For decades, solar energy researchers have faced a seemingly insurmountable barrier: a theoretical ceiling known as the Shockley-Queisser limit. This fundamental rule of physics dictates that a standard, single-layer silicon solar cell can only ever convert a maximum of about 33% of the sun’s…
