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

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