How to Use perovskite in a Sentence

perovskite

noun

• And why should perovskites be able to surpass the silicon record?
  — Samuel D. Stranks, Scientific American, 1 July 2015
• This helped ensure the perovskite also formed pyramids to catch light.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 July 2023
• That may not matter for some applications if the perovskite is much cheaper to make, though.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 June 2022
• Until recently, little was known about how and where deep traps formed in perovskite cells.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 15 Apr. 2020
• Saule, meanwhile, is using inkjet printing to produce its own perovskite cells on thin plastic sheets.
  — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
• The cells are made of a combination of silicon and a material called a perovskite.
  — Dina Genkina, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2023
• The challenge is that perovskites are extremely fragile.
  — Molly A. Seltzer, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
• Enlarge / Samples of the new perovskite photovoltaics, ready for testing.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 June 2022
• In any case, the researchers create a device simply by hooking up the perovskite to electrodes in a hydrogen atmosphere.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2022
• Previous outdoor tests on perovskite–silicon tandems, conducted by the same team, were six months long.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2023
• The scaffolding around the perovskites didn’t deter from their electrical output either.
  — Molly A. Seltzer, Smithsonian, 18 Sep. 2017
• To get past the 29% cap, silicon can be combined with perovskite, another semiconductor.
  — Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
• Researchers are beginning to solve those shortcomings by making perovskites that are more robust and waterproof.
  — The Economist, 3 Feb. 2018
• Meanwhile, a new class of opaque solar cell materials, called perovskites, are closing in on silicon with top efficiencies of 22%.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2018
• Each of these devices has a cathode composed of a photovoltaic perovskite and a cobalt catalyst, and an anode made of the photocatalyst bismuth vanadate.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
• Not only are the perovskites cheaper than silicon, they can also be tuned to absorb specific frequencies of light by tweaking their chemical recipe.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2018
• The research built on the fact that perovskite, a conductive and light-sensitive material used in solar cells, can be used to create extremely thin nanowires several thousandths of a millimeter in length.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 20 May 2020
• It's called calcium silicate perovskite, and without a hard casing like diamond, scientists have never been able to keep it stable at Earth's surface.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 8 Mar. 2018
• Meanwhile, at the cathode, the perovskite generates electricity, which drives the cobalt catalyst to reduce carbon dioxide and produce syngas.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 June 2023
• The mineral, calcium silicate perovskite, only forms under the incredibly high pressures that occur deep in the earth.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 11 Nov. 2021
• But scientists weren't sure what to do with them until 2009, when a Japanese researcher found that perovskite, like silicon, could absorb photons of sunlight and turn them into electricity.
  — John Fialka, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2020
• Researchers can also layer different perovskites with different bandgaps on top of one another.
  — Samuel D. Stranks, Scientific American, 1 July 2015
• Scientists have set a new efficiency record for perovskite-silicon solar cells.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2020
• The new cell uses perovskite, a crystalline structure formed by minerals that convert sunlight into electricity.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 30 Jan. 2024
• The most common mineral in absolute is bridgmanite, known also as silicate-perovskite, making up 38 percent of Earth's volume.
  — David Bressan, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
• Some of the most promising perovskite materials for solar power also incorporate lead, which can be released into the environment when the perovskite cells degrade.
  — NBC News, 19 Apr. 2021
• Even so, enough scientists were intrigued by the possibilities of perovskite to investigate further.
  — Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2018
• The earliest perovskite LEDs converted only 0.76% of electrons into photons.
  — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 4 June 2019
• The raw materials and synthesis for lead perovskite cells are much cheaper than the high-purity silicon needed for traditional solar panels.
  — Conor Prendergast, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2020
• Researchers are also making progress on solar cells made of perovskite, or materials with a unique crystal structure that allows them to be much more efficient than the current generation silicon solar cells.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 7 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024