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Perovskite Connect returns to Berlin in 2026! Let's take a look at some of the memorable talks from the 2025 edition. These videos step beyond the panel makers themselves to the wider ecosystem - a materials innovator, a major energy developer, and a leading voice on the future of Western solar manufacturing. Each clip is taken from the full presentations given in Berlin.

Sofab Inks - Blake Martin: "Novel materials for next-generation perovskite solar panel production processes"

As the solar industry scales, the challenge is finding materials that perform well and also scale effectively for mass production. In this talk, Sofab Inks' Blake Martin explored materials designed to bridge that gap — balancing performance with manufacturability and addressing key materials challenges for perovskite solar cells at scale using soluble processes.

With just a few months to go until Perovskite Connect 2026, returning once again to Berlin for its second edition, we are revisiting some of the standout talks from the 2025 edition. These videos feature three companies working at the leading edge of commercializing perovskite and perovskite-silicon tandem solar panels. Each short clip runs one to two minutes and offers a taste of the full presentations delivered on stage in Berlin.

Oxford PV - Ed Crossland: "The Era of Perovskite-on-Silicon: Delivering Commercial 30%+ Modules to the Global Market"

Silicon solar is nearing its practical efficiency limit, and perovskite-silicon tandems are the technology poised to break through it. In this keynote, Oxford PV's Ed Crossland reflected on the company having shipped the world's first commercial perovskite-silicon tandem modules in 2024, and charted the roadmap toward higher efficiencies - with a particular emphasis on durability, scalability, and integrating perovskite cells into existing silicon manufacturing lines with minimal disruption.

Researchers from Rice University, Northwestern University, City University of New York, University of Rennes (CNRS), University of Lille (CNRS) and University of Nebraska-Lincoln have developed a new family of FA-based two-dimensional metal halide perovskites that come very close to a “perfect” crystal at room temperature. 

These hybrid (organic–inorganic) semiconductors are engineered to achieve near-maximal crystallographic symmetry, adopting a tetragonal P4/mmm space group without in-plane or out-of-plane octahedral distortions. In contrast to most 2D perovskites, whose softer lattices tend to distort and lower symmetry, the new materials maintain a highly ordered framework inspired by three-dimensional cubic (α-phase) FAPbI₃ (FA = formamidinium).

Perovskite-Connect is the industry's top event series, offering a combination of exciting online webinars and a flagship annual on-site event. Our inaugural meeting will take place on 21-23 October 2025, at the Estrel Conference Centre, Berlin, Germany. Perovskite-Connect is co-organised by TechBlick and Perovskite-Info and offers the best way to connect with the global perovksite industry and market.

In this article, we will share a few short videos from past events. First up, we have Microquanta's Yang Chen that details the latest performance of the company's perovskite panels - showing how they generate more electricity than silicon in harsh environments.

Oxford PV recently posted a cryptic message on its LinkedIn page, stating that: "Solar is about to enter a new era. Ready to see what’s next? We have some exciting news to share very soon....". Here's the video that followed this message: 

We'll have to wait and see what Oxford PV's big news is, hopefully it'll have something to do with imminent commercialization of the Company's PSC technology. In June, Oxford PV announced a record-setting 26.9% efficiency for its double-glass, 60-cell “residential sized” perovskite tandem module at the Intersolar Europe 2024 event. The module reportedly has a surface area of a little over 1.6 m square meters (1m x 1.7m) and weighs a little under 25 kg. In January, a research team from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE reported a PV module using perovskite silicon tandem solar cells from Oxford PV with an efficiency of 25% and an out-put of 421 watts on an area of 1.68 square meters, stating it is a record efficiency for a silicon perovskite tandem solar module in industrial format. 

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For years, the Helmholtz-Zentrum in Berlin has been researching the development of highly efficient perovskite tandem solar cells with great success. The HySprint Innovation Lab was founded specifically for this purpose, which cooperates internationally with other research groups as well as with industrial partners.

Many process steps are necessary to produce these highly efficient perovskite cells, which can all be realized together in the HySprint laboratory. A good research environment and high-quality equipment allow researchers to work optimally on their projects. The results at HZB are impressive. In recent years, the researchers have made significant progress in the field of perovskite tandem solar cells and achieved independently certified world record of tandem solar cells.

UK-based Quantum Solutions published this video below that demonstrates its latest perovskite QD film for LCD color conversion:

Quantum Solutions now offers its QDot SharpGreen Perovskite QDs Film, which is a polymer composite with embedded QDot SharpGreen Perovskite QDs. It is designed to be used in LCD backlighting units and sensor devices for X-rays and UV lights. The material has green emission 520-535 nm (depending on the concentration), high PLQY (up to 80-100 %) and narrow FWHM ( 70-80 % of initial photoluminescence within 1000 hours of exposing by heat (85 °C and blue light 10 mW/cm² exposure) and high relative humidity (90 % RH at 60 °C).

A research team at Stanford University has designed a new perovskite manufacturing process. In their work, the team demonstrated an ultrafast way to produce stable perovskite cells and assemble them into solar modules that could power devices, buildings and even the electricity grid.

'This work provides a new milestone for perovskite manufacturing,' said study senior author Reinhold Dauskardt, the Ruth G. and William K. Bowes Professor in the Stanford School of Engineering. 'It resolves some of the most formidable barriers to module-scale manufacturing that the community has been dealing with for years.'

An exciting application for perovskite QDs, which is likely to be the first commercial adoption of pQDs, is for the display market - films that convert blue LED LCD backlight to green.

Switzerland-based nanomaterial developer Avantama told us that the company passed the OEM qualification with its green pQD film, together with a KSF phosphor solution on the LED chip. Avantama expects the first commercial LCD display to adopt this solution to hit the market in 2021.

Singapore-based Nanolumi unveiled several display prototypes that adopt the company's perovskite quantum dots films.

In the video above, you can see a 32" mini-LED display, a 24" edge-lit LCD monitor and a 10-inch tablet. The company says its cadmium-free films combine the industry's narrowest color spectrum.