A conventional solar panel is a sheet of glass with silicon inside it.
It is rigid, heavy and made at high temperatures in a furnace, which is why panels go on roofs and in fields and almost nowhere else, and why installing them means building a structure to hold them.
Perovskite changes what is possible.
The material can be deposited at low temperature from solution, which means it can be laid onto a flexible sheet rather than requiring a rigid wafer, and a panel that bends can go onto a curved roof, a vehicle, a piece of equipment or a surface that would never take glass.
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