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MIT PVLab:
Engineering scalable low-cost materials into high-performance devices to power our renewable energy future.
Our Mission:
The mission of the Photovoltaic Research Laboratory is to accelerate the adoption of solar energy technologies via breakthroughs in efficiency, cost reduction, de-bottlenecking, and efficient materials utilization. We synthesize and characterize commercial and next-generation photovoltaic materials and devices, engineering low-cost, scalable materials into defect-tolerant, high-performance devices.
Research Highlights:
- Mar 3, 2012 Crystalline silicon photovoltaics: A cost analysis framework for determining technology pathways to reach baseload electricity costs.
- Jun 21, 2011 Light-induced water oxidation at silicon electrodes functionalized with a cobalt oxygen-evolving catalyst.
- Jun 2, 2011 Impurity-to-efficiency simulator: Predictive simulation of silicon solar cell performance based on iron content and distribution.