Russia Has Developed A New Type of Translucent Solar Panel That Not Only Generates Electricity But Also Transmits Visible Light

According to media reports, Russia's National Research Technical University has developed a new method of applying indium tin oxide transparent electrodes to perovskite solar cells, which can further improve the efficiency of solar cells and make them translucent.

 

Traditionally, the industry generally uses magnetron sputtering technology to apply ITO as a transparent electrode material to perovskite solar cells. However, this method is faced with major challenges: ITO layers deposited by magnetron sputtering often have many defects, and it is difficult to meet the ideal performance requirements; More importantly, the process may also cause damage to the fragile perovskite layer and other battery components, seriously restricting the overall efficiency of the battery.

 

In order to solve this problem, the Russian scientific research team has developed a new way to use advanced ion beam sputtering technology. This revolutionary approach avoids the need for high temperature environments and effectively protects the structural integrity of each layer of the battery, thus ensuring that the ITO layer can be deposited in an optimal state on the perovskite solar cell, showing excellent performance.

 

The experimental results show that the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the translucent solar cells prepared by ion beam sputtering technology has achieved a qualitative leap, from 3.12% to 12.65% of ITO samples by magnetron sputtering. This significant improvement not only proves the feasibility and superiority of the new technological route, but also opens up a broad space for the future development of perovskite solar cells.

 

This research achievement is not only limited to the improvement of efficiency, but also gives a new application dimension of solar cells. It makes it possible to make high-performance series solar cells, which broaden the absorption range of the radiation spectrum by stacking a variety of photosensitive materials, greatly improving the efficiency of the use of sunlight. At the same time, with its unique light transmission characteristics, translucent solar cells bring unprecedented creative space for architectural design, so that solar cells can be seamlessly integrated into the Windows, external walls and other parts of the building, to achieve the perfect integration of energy utilization and aesthetic design.