The Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) is proud to highlight the publication of a landmark analysis in prestigious journal Joule titled " State-of-play of contending silicon photovoltaic technologies " 1 , authored by Professor Martin Green alongside notable co-authors Dr Jessica Yajie Jiang , Dr Ning Song and Dr Zibo Zhou (UNSW/ACAP), and industry heavyweights from Aiko , LONGi , Huasun, JA Solar and Trina Solar . Silicon solar cells account for over 97%

Professor Kylie Catchpole gave an update on ACAP’s PV Futures and Knowledge Sharing program which is focused on understanding what ultra‑low cost solar means for the whole energy system, and how we communicate that to industry, policymakers and the community. 

ACAP researchers at ANU have tackled degradation in perovskite silicon tandem cells, by deliberately running tandem cells in a slightly mismatched mode, where the silicon layer limits the overall current – and dramatically suppresses the problematic voltage fluctuations in the perovskite layer.