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Episode 59: Photovoltaic Materials
Materialism: A Materials Science Podcast
Photovoltaics
The best anyone has ever done is just shy of 29% I think. And that's for gallium arsenide, this sells. The tricky thing, and it's worth talking about, the sort of love diminishing returns kicks in really hard. It's like you get this tiny little increment in efficiency, but it means you had to make it 10 times or 100 times better. But now you understand what that meant in terms of materials properties. So if you want to, basically, basically have a logarithmic function,. so if you do 10 times better, you only get like, you know, 1% return on it or something like that.
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