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UNSW Engineering Grads Swap Silver for Copper to Break Solar Panel Efficiency Record

UNSW Engineering alumni hailed after setting a world record for efficiency in silicon solar cells using a potentially revolutionary material.

SunDrive Solar, a company co-founded in 2015 by bachelor of engineering graduate and PhD candidate Vince Allen, recently received certification from the Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH) that their commercially-sized silicon solar cell had achieved a 25.54% efficiency. This efficiency surpassed the previous world record of 25.26%, held by LONGi Solar, the world’s leading manufacturer of mono-crystalline solar modules. Silicon is currently the dominant solar cell technology, and...

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