SunDrive Solar, a company co-founded in 2015 by bachelor of engineering graduate and PhD candidate Vince Allen, recently received certification from the Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH) that their commercially-sized silicon solar cell had achieved a 25.54% efficiency. This efficiency surpassed the previous world record of 25.26%, held by LONGi Solar, the world’s leading manufacturer of mono- Crystalline solar modules. Silicon is currently the dominant solar cell technology, and this technology comprised 95 per cent of all solar modules installed in 2020. What makes the SunDrive achievement even more remarkable is that they use copper to pull the electrical current from the cells rather than silver, which