**AI Breakthrough for Solar Panel Production**
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the way engineers are building solar panels using a “miracle material”. Tandem solar cells that use perovskite promise to bring dramatically improved efficiency to mass production. With an efficiency rate of more than 33 percent, these cells are far superior to conventional silicon solar cells.
However, the challenge has been to produce them inexpensively and at scale. Creating thin, high-quality layers of perovskite has proven difficult, relying on a complex process that seems to have little explanation. Nevertheless, scientists have now successfully built a new system that uses artificial intelligence to improve the production process.
The breakthrough involves training a computer system to recognize the hidden signs of good and bad coatings, allowing researchers to understand how to adjust production methods to make them more efficient. Ulrich W Paetzold, a researcher from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, describes the results as “extremely exciting”, as the AI technology offers a more targeted approach to experimentation.
The researchers believe that AI can be a game-changer in energy research and materials science. The breakthrough is detailed in the article ‘Discovering Process Dynamics for Scalable Perovskite Solar Cell Manufacturing with Explainable AI’, published in Advanced Materials.
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