{"id":3230,"date":"2020-08-15T07:26:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T07:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bristolphotoblog.com\/?p=3230"},"modified":"2020-08-15T07:26:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T07:26:58","slug":"oxford-pv-perovskite-cells-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/oxford-pv-perovskite-cells-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford PV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My normal morning routine is as follows &#8211; get woken up by one of the two kids, check the time (hoping it&#8217;s 6am or later), unsuccessfully leap out of bed with vim and vigour, head downstairs and grind up some coffee (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blindowlcoffee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blind Owl<\/a> currently), check the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guardian <\/a>while said coffee brews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" src=\"https:\/\/bristolphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-2-1300x867.jpg\" alt=\"Oxfrod PV's thin-film perovskite solar cell at their base in Oxford, Oxon, 25 October 2017. Photo by Adam Gasson \/ adamgasson.com \/ Innovate UK\" class=\"wp-image-3232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-2-1300x867.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><figcaption>Dr Chris Case holds one of Oxford PV&#8217;s thin-film perovskite solar cells<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This morning one of the lead stories was on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordpv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford PV<\/a>, a company I visited for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/innovate-uk\" target=\"_blank\">Innovate UK<\/a> back in 2017. They&#8217;ve been developing perovskite solar cells. Current silicon based solar cells have a maximum efficiency of 29% whereas Oxford PV&#8217;s perovskite-silicon cells push this to 43% &#8211; a significant improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"867\" height=\"1300\" src=\"https:\/\/bristolphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-3-867x1300.jpg\" alt=\"Oxford PV's Dr Chris Case, CTO, and Professor Henry Snaith\" class=\"wp-image-3233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-3-867x1300.jpg 867w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-3-533x800.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-3-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-3-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/AG-Oxford-PV-perovskite-cell-3.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 867px) 100vw, 867px\" \/><figcaption>Oxford PV&#8217;s Dr Chris Case, CTO, and Professor Henry Snaith, Co-Founder and CSO<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2020\/aug\/15\/uk-firms-solar-power-breakthrough-could-make-worlds-most-efficient-panels-by-2021\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian article on Oxford PV<\/a> they&#8217;re hoping to be in production by 2021. The company was established in 2010 as a spin-out from Professor Henry Snaith&#8217;s Oxford University physics lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Recent work by\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/adamgasson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bristol photographer<\/a>\u00a0Adam Gasson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My normal morning routine is as follows &#8211; get woken up by one of the two kids, check the time (hoping it&#8217;s 6am or later), unsuccessfully leap out of bed with vim and vigour, head (&hellip;) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/oxford-pv-perovskite-cells-photo\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,128,15],"tags":[182,30,177,280,308,184,382,183,379,259,377,384,380,378,27,17,200,383,381,386,385,150],"class_list":["post-3230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marketing","category-portrait-2","category-work","tag-advertising-photographer","tag-bristol","tag-bristol-photographer","tag-bristol-portrait-photographer","tag-bristol-portrait-photography","tag-bristol-studio-photographer","tag-business-photographer","tag-commercial-photographer","tag-dr-chris-case","tag-innovate-uk","tag-oxford-pv","tag-oxford-university","tag-perovskite-solar-cells","tag-perovskite-silicon","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-portrait-photography","tag-professor-henry-snaith","tag-solar-energy","tag-solar-panels","tag-spin-out","tag-studio-photographer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamgasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}