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Best Research Cell Efficiencies.20200925

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Best Research-Cell Efficiencies

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Multijunction Cells (2-terminal, monolithic) Thin-Film Technologies Sharp FhG-ISE
(IMM, 302x) Soitec NREL
LM = lattice matched CIGS (concentrator) (4-J, 297x) (4-J,665x)
48 Boeing- (6-J,143x)
MM = metamorphic CIGS 47.6%
Spectrolab SolarJunc FhG-ISE/ Soitec
IMM = inverted, metamorphic CdTe (LM, 364x)
Amorphous Si:H (stabilized) (LM, 942x)
Three-junction (concentrator) Spectrolab FhG-ISE SpireSemicon
Three-junction (non-concentrator) NREL
44 Two-junction (concentrator)
Emerging PV (MM, 299x) (MM, 454x) (MM, 406x) 44.4%
Dye-sensitized cells Boeing-Spectrolab Boeing-Spectrolab NREL
Two-junction (non-concentrator) Soitec (4-J, 327x)
Perovskite cells (MM,179x) (MM, 240x) (4-J, 319x)
Four-junction or more (concentrator) Perovskite/Si tandem (monolithic) Boeing-
SolarJunc NREL (6-J)
40 Four-junction or more (non-concentrator) Organic cells NREL (IMM) NREL Spectrolab (5-J) NREL 39.5%
NREL (IMM, 325.7x) (LM, 418x) 39.2%
Single-Junction GaAs Organic tandem cells Boeing-
Inorganic cells (CZTSSe) Boeing- Spectrolab Sharp (IMM)
Single crystal
36 Concentrator Quantum dot cells (various types) Spectrolab
Boeing- NREL
Sharp (IMM) FhG-ISE NREL (38.1x) 35.5%
Perovskite/CIGS tandem (monolithic) Spectrolab (IMM) KAUST
Thin-film crystal NREL/ Spectrolab 33.7%
Spectrolab Spectrolab NREL (467x) NREL (MM) LG NREL KAUST
Crystalline Si Cells
Cell Efficiency (%)

32.9%
Japan Spectrolab Alta HZB
32 Single crystal (concentrator) Varian NREL Energy IES-UPM (1026x) FhG-ISE (117x) NREL NREL Alta
Devices
EPFL/CSEM
Single crystal (non-concentrator) (216x)
NREL LG (258x) NREL
Alta Alta SunPower (large-area) Alta HZBOxford PV
FhG-ISE (232x) HZB 30.8%
Multicrystalline Varian Radboud Univ. FhG-ISE 29.1%
Silicon heterostructures (HIT) Varian 27.8%
28 (205x)
SunPower (96x) Panasonic LG LG Oxford PV KRICT/MIT
Thin-film crystal NREL Amonix (92x) Kaneka Oxford PV KRICT/MIT & LONGi 27.6%
Stanford Kaneka 26.8%
Kopin Panasonic ISFH Korea U (tie) USTC
(140x) UNSW Radboud U. FhG-ISE Alta EPFL 26.1%
Varian UNSW Solexel ZSW UNIST UNIST ISCAS 26.1%
Panasonic
24 Spire UNSW UNSW
UNSW
Sanyo Sanyo NREL (14.7x) First Solar Stanford/ASU Evolar/ 24.2%
IBM UNSW
FhG-ISE
Sanyo Sanyo NREL (15.4x) SolarFrontier UU 23.6%
UNSW UNSW ZSW
(T.J. Watson Stanford UNSW / NREL Sanyo NREL HZB JinkoSolar First 23.3%
Research Center) UNSW (14x) ZSW EMPA (Flex poly) ISCAS UCLA 23.3%
Georgia Eurosolare FhG-ISE ZSW Trina Solar Solar
20 ARCO Georgia Georgia Tech
ISFH
Canadian Solar SJTU
22.4%
21.2%
Tech Tech NREL Solexel KRICT KRICT/UNIST UNIST
Westing- Spire Varian UNSW NREL NREL NREL NREL First Solar SJTU/BUAA 19.2%
house NREL NREL U. Stuttgart FhG-ISE Solibro
NREL SolarFron EPFL City U HK/UW 18.1%
Sandia First Solar GE First GE Trina SJTU-UMass
16 RCA
No. Carolina
U. So.
Florida Matsushita NREL
Solar Univ.of Queensland SCUT-CSU IoP/CAS
U. Stuttgart KRICT AIST Raynergy Tek of Taiwan 14.9%
Mobil State U. SolarexSolarex NREL UniSolar Mitsubishi EPFL AIST
ICCAS 14.2%
Boeing (aSi/ncSi/ncSi) LG
Solar NREL Euro-CIS NREL
UniSolar 14.0%
UniSolar Sharp
12 Boeing Kodak ARCO ARCO NIMS EPFL NJUPT 13.0%
Kodak Kodak Boeing
EPFL
Sharp EPFL
Photon Energy IBM IBM
Kodak AMETEK UCLA- IBM Phillips 66 SCUT/eFlexPV
Matsushita Boeing Boeing EPFL Sumitomo UCLA
ARCO Konarka U.Toronto
Solarex ICCAS
8 U.of Maine
Monosolar UniSolar Solarmer Heliatek
MIT HKUST UCLA
NREL / Konarka Konarka UCLA
Boeing RCA EPFL Sumi- U.Toronto U.Toronto
U.of Maine Groningen U. Linz (PbS-QD)
EPFL tomo

(Rev. 09-27-2023)
4 Siemens
Plextronics Heliatek
RCA U. Linz U. Dresden NREL
RCA RCA RCA U. Linz
(ZnO/PbS-QD)
RCA RCA
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