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Australian photovoltaics researchers have made a cool discovery: Singlet fission and tandem solar cells - two innovative ways to generate solar power more efficiently - also help to lower operating temperatures and keep devices running for longer.
Tandem cells can be made from a combination of silicon - the most commonly used photovoltaics material - and new compounds like perovskite nanocrystals, which can have a larger bandgap than silicon and help the device to capture more of the solar spectrum for energy generation.
Singlet fission, meanwhile, is a technique that produces twice the electronic charge carriers than normal for each photon of light that s absorbed. Tetracene is used in these devices to transfer the energy generated by singlet fission into silicon.
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