A team of researchers from Peking University and the Universities of Surrey, Oxford and Cambridge have developed a new way to reduce an unwanted process called non-radiative recombination, where energy and efficiency is lost in perovskite solar cells. This technique has reportedly produced "the highest performing inverted perovskite solar cell ever recorded".
The team created a technique called Solution-Process Secondary growth (SSG) which increased the voltage of inverted perovskite solar cells by 100 millivolts, reaching a high of 1.21 volts without compromising the quality of the solar cell or the electrical current flowing through a device. They tested the technique on a device which recorded a PCE of 20.9%, which is said to be the highest certified PCE for inverted perovskite solar cells ever recorded.
