Supported by ACAP, Professor Xiaojing Hao (UNSW) and her team have played a leading role in engineering pathways for kesterite solar cells beyond 15% efficiency, a milestone that repositions the technology as a credible, scalable alternative to less sustainable thin-film options. At the heart of this advance is precise control of the kesterite formation pathway using molecular ink chemistry, as reported in Nature Energy, with international collaborators.

Researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ) have made a major step forward by showing that large-area perovskite solar cells can deliver high performance using simpler, more scalable designs.

By combining high-throughput manufacturing-style experimentation with machine learning (ML), researchers from CSIRO and Monash University have achieved both unprecedented data scale and record device performance,