A novel concept for photovoltaics developed at TU Dresden

Dresden, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2022

The purpose of a photovoltaic cell is to convert sunlight into electricity. By absorbing the sunlight, pairs of charge carriers are generated and then need to be guided to the opposite sides of the photovoltaic diode to produce electrical current. To facilitate this process, most solar cells include a heterojunction that provides a favourable energetic landscape to drive the charges to be separa