An international research group boosted perovskite solar cells efficiency by adding silicon nanoparticles. Various metal nanoparticles have been tried before, but can have drawbacks such as absorbing energy, or increasing corrosion. In the case of the silicon particles, they don’t absorb light, nor do they interact with other materials in the cell, according to ITMO University ...

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