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DESCRIPTION:Renewable electricity from solar photovoltaics (PV)\, combined 
 with low-cost large-scale storage\, is likely to play a dominating role in
  decarbonizing the expanding global power sector in the long run. For exam
 ple\, the global deployment of PV is targeted at ~75 TW installed capacity
  by 2050\, from the current (2025) ~2.5 TW. While currently used PV techno
 logies are efficient\, reliable\, and relatively cheap\, there is\, and al
 ways will be\, insatiable demand for new PV technologies that are more eff
 icient and cost-effective\, and importantly\, have a smaller ‘carbon-foo
 tprint.’ In this context\, the promising new PV technology based on a fa
 scinating class of halide-perovskite materials has the potential to meet a
 ll those requirements. Perovskite thin-film PV can be mechanically rigid o
 r flexible\, where the latter lightweight PV are more versatile with the p
 otential to power internet-of-things\, vehicles\, satellites\, portable su
 pplies\, <i>etc</i>.\, in addition to rooftop and utility-scale applicatio
 ns. While the record power-conversion efficiency of perovskite PV now riva
 ls that of conventional silicon PV\, durability and mechanical reliability
  are becoming ‘bottleneck’ challenges in perovskite PV. To address som
 e of these technical hurdles in the path towards their commercialization\,
  we have researched several rationally-designed microstructural and interf
 acial tailoring approaches. These include grain-coarsening\, grain-boundar
 y functionalization\, and engineering of interfaces and substrates. Most i
 mportantly\, these approaches are designed to not only enhance the PVs’ 
 mechanical performance but also increase efficiency and improve durability
  simultaneously. The scientific rationales for these approaches will be di
 scussed\, together with the presentation of current results.\nSpeaker: Pro
 f. Nitin P. Padture
LAST-MODIFIED:20260512T072850Z
LOCATION:Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials\, Room: Large Confe
 rence Room No. 203
ORGANIZER;CN=on invitation of Prof. Dierk Raabe / Prof. Gerhard Dehm:mailto
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SUMMARY:The Promise of Halide-Perovskite Solar Photovoltaics
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.mpie.de/events/45699/3755656
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