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The new perovskite solar cells have achieved an efficiency of 20.1 per cent and can be manufactured at low temperatures, which reduces the cost and expands the number of possible applications. (Photo: Kevin Soobrian)

Research removes a key barrier to large-scale manufacture of low-cost, printable perovskite solar cells. A U of T Engineering innovation could make printing solar cells as easy and inexpensive as printing a newspaper. “Economies of scale have greatly reduced the cost of silicon manufacturing,” said Professor Ted Sargent, Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology. “Perovskite solar cells can enable us to use techniques already established in the printing industry to produce solar cells at very low cost...