Recently, researchers from Peking University reported large-area perovskite solar cells which were more stable 35 km up than at ground level. The researchers also tested the stability of the devices by sending them to an altitude of 35 km above the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China using an high-altitude balloon. Scientists from UCL and ISIS also have been testing perovskite solar cells to see how resilient they are to the neutron irradiation they would be exposed to in space. These solar cells maintained good stability in space conditions. Now question is could we use perovskite materials for space applications? could these cells replace existing solar fits?
I think the main advantage of the peovskite and organic materials in space applications that they are molecular in nature and very thin layers. So they can transmit the energetic space radiations rather than absorbing them. Even if they absorb a part of this radiation it will not affect much the carrier collection. Such materials in this form can be much less secretive to the space radiation.
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I found the below link from the Nature News could answer your question very well regarding the prospects of perovskite solar cell application.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01985-y
I think the main advantage of the peovskite and organic materials in space applications that they are molecular in nature and very thin layers. So they can transmit the energetic space radiations rather than absorbing them. Even if they absorb a part of this radiation it will not affect much the carrier collection. Such materials in this form can be much less secretive to the space radiation.
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i would like to share some important publications regarding perovskite solar cells in space
Article Organic and perovskite solar cells for space applications
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8366410
Thanks a lot Abdelhalim Zekry (Sir), Xuhua Wang (Madam) and Dear Mujahid Muhammad !
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