Characterising and predicting new perovskite inspired materials using spectroscopic and computational techniques

近年来，“钙钛矿启发”材料的兴趣显著增加，希望它们能够提供稳定的无毒薄膜太阳能电池，可以与硅基器件的效率相匹配。为了确定一种新材料是否能在器件中实现高效率，可以使用计算和实验技术来研究候选材料的电子和光学特性。这将使我们能够发现新的和负担得起的能源材料。

'Perovskite-inspired' materials have seen a significant rise in interest in recent years, with the hope they will deliver stable non-toxic thin-film solar cells that can match the efficiency of silicon based devices. In order to determine if a new material will achieve high efficiencies in devices, computational and experimental techniques can be used to study the electronic and optical properties of candidate materials. This will hopefully allow us to discover new and affordable energy materials.