A team led by Pakistan-born in scientist Yassir Siddique has developed a promising solar cell technology, setting two new world records of efficiency which could help foster clean energy initiatives to combat the global warming issue.

Yasir Siddique, who is a Ph.D. scholar at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) and the University of Science and Technology (UST), Daejeon, South Korea, has designed and fabricated solution-processed Copper Indium Sulphu Selenide (CISSe) solar cells.

Efficiency-wise, Siddique’s cell, which is of the emerging trend of Tandem solar technology, is now most efficient in the category. It took him almost three years to develop it. The CISSe only cell allows efficiency of 14.4 percent. 

His design, which blends CISSe with perovskite (perovskite/CISSe) cell, touched the efficiency of 23.03 percent– the highest efficiency as compared to all solution-processed (perovskite/CISSe) solar cell categories.

His studies were published in the top research journal of the world “Energy and Environmental Science” with an impact factor of 38.532.

“It is the single largest high impact research published from KIER, Daejeon Campus in the recent times,” Yasir Siddique was quoted as saying by Express Tribune. 

(SAM)