David Savastano, Editor10.15.14
There are a number of interesting technologies being developed and commercialized for photovoltaics (PV). Crystalline silicon, cadmium telluride (CdTe), amorphous silicon (aSi), copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS), dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC) and organic photovoltaics (PV) have all drawn attention for the potential they have for producing energy. Each of these are at various stages of commercialization, with crystalline silicone and CdTe leading the way.
Perovskite is a thin-film solar technology that is drawing a lot of attention in the PV field. Named after a mineral discovered by Gustav Rose in the Ural Mountains in 1839, perovskite is named after the Russian mineralogist Count Lev Perovski. The actual chemical composition is calcium titanate. However, it is the structure of the PV cell, and not the composition of it, that lends this new solar cell its name. Prof. Henry Snaith ignited the global interest in perovskites when he published a seminal paper in “Science
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