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Encapsulation and ion-migration suppression have moved perovskite tandem cells from a 200-hour curiosity to thousands of hours of measured outdoor performance. The field-stability gap is closing.
There is a hard upper bound on how much sunlight any single-junction photovoltaic cell can convert to electricity. Knowing where it comes from clarifies which directions of improvement are physics, and which are engineering.
Quantum sensors — atomic clocks, gravimeters, magnetometers — have moved from precision-physics curiosities to deployable instruments. The applications opened by the move are not the ones popular coverage emphasizes.
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Encapsulation and ion-migration suppression have moved perovskite tandem cells from a 200-hour curiosity to thousands of hours of measured outdoor performance. The field-stability gap is closing.
There is a hard upper bound on how much sunlight any single-junction photovoltaic cell can convert to electricity. Knowing where it comes from clarifies which directions of improvement are physics, and which are engineering.
Quantum sensors — atomic clocks, gravimeters, magnetometers — have moved from precision-physics curiosities to deployable instruments. The applications opened by the move are not the ones popular coverage emphasizes.
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