Are simpler, cheaper solar cells on the way? Work being done to improve solar cell efficiency using a mineral called perovskite at Oxford University raises interesting possibilities.

According to a summary at SciTechDaily, from about 2009 to now, solar cells made from materials called perovskites “have reached efficiencies that other technologies took decades to achieve, but until recently no one quite knew why.”

Perovskite is a calcium titanium oxide mineral species composed of calcium titanate. It can be found in the Urals and Switzerland, as well as in Arkansas and some chondritic meteorites. And it’s quite

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