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    Newest solar technology proves nearly 23% efficient.

    NREL Research Pushes Perovskites Closer to Market
    An NREL scientist holds a container of a perovskite ink formulation that can be painted onto a surface to create a solar cell. Photo by Dennis Schroeder/NREL.
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    Initially able to convert 7% of sunlight into electricity, dye cells ticked upward to about 11% in 2004 and held fast. Despite the best efforts of scientists around the world, perovskites couldn’t catch up—or even get close—to the above-20% efficiencies dominated by silicon solar panels.
     
    Then, because research requires thinking about problems differently, some scientists tried supplementing the dye cells with organic-inorganic hybrid crystalline materials: perovskites. The combination captured

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