Insights into energy loss open doors for up-and-coming solar tech

https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2022/11/18/insights-energy-loss-open-doors-and-coming-solar-tech

"As disorder solar cell increases, nonradiative energy loss componet we have control over, grows rapidly... nonradiative energy loss grows with square of disorder component... better-performing organic solar cells... highly crystalline or highly amorphous materials and avoid mixing the two within a device. If you have anything in between, some heterogeneity in which parts of a film are slightly crystalline and some parts are amorphous, that’s when you lose the most energy"

Related: Researchers optimize performance and stability of multi-layer organic solar cells

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-11-optimize-stability-multi-layer-solar-cells.html