December 7, 2014

Researchers at the University of New South Wales announced that they were able to convert more than 40% of sunlight hitting panels into electricity. The tests were replicated at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the United States.

A similar breakthrough (44.7%) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, ISE, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin was announced in September 2013.