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- Photovoltaic generation has dramatically increased over the past ten years, now supplying about 1.7% of global electricity and emerging as a key player in the energy transition.
- Advances in materials and production techniques have significantly contributed to this growth, but challenges remain in achieving clean, affordable energy through solar technology.
- The Japan-French cooperation program, NextPV, explores innovative solar cell technologies, including multijunction and ultrathin cells, and focuses on developing printable materials like colloidal quantum dots.
Article Abstract
Photovoltaic generation has stepped up within the last decade from outsider status to one of the important contributors of the ongoing energy transition, with about 1.7% of world electricity provided by solar cells. Progress in materials and production processes has played an important part in this development. Yet, there are many challenges before photovoltaics could provide clean, abundant, and cheap energy. Here, we review this research direction, with a focus on the results obtained within a Japan-French cooperation program, NextPV, working on promising solar cell technologies. The cooperation was focused on efficient photovoltaic devices, such as multijunction, ultrathin, intermediate band, and hot-carrier solar cells, and on printable solar cell materials such as colloidal quantum dots.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5917436 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14686996.2018.1433439 | DOI Listing |
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