Comment by guerrilla
Hmm, why do I know this word "perovskite". Wikipedia gives me no clues, just some mineral.
Hmm, why do I know this word "perovskite". Wikipedia gives me no clues, just some mineral.
Ah, that's what it was for me.
Roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cells under ambient room conditions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39998740
Perovskite solar cells, ah yes, the ones that degrade rapidly in sunlight. Good thing they are typically safely tucked away in labs with controlled lighting.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2024/tc/d4tc0208...
IIRC it was some different type of imaging sensor, so looked it up that way
They are used in thin-film solar panel development. Not sure anyone has cracked the big problem with them, which is durability.
Possible source: Solar panels with this material were hyped a couple years ago.