We are pleased to share a new Perspective article published in Nature Reviews Clean Technology, co-authored by Anurag Krishna, Dr. Amit Kumar Harit, Zi Fan He, Yinghuan Kuang, Tamara Merckx, Aranzazu Aguirre and Tom Aernouts from EnergyVille / IMEC.
The article provides a timely and comprehensive analysis of the path forward for perovskite photovoltaics — the technology at the heart of LAPERITIVO’s research mission.
Titled “Taking perovskite photovoltaics from promise to product” and published on 26 May 2026, this Perspective goes beyond laboratory performance to examine the full commercialisation pathway for perovskite and perovskite–silicon tandem PV technologies. It reframes the challenge as a multidimensional, product-centric evolution spanning materials, manufacturing processes, certification standards, policy, and market design.
“The field is now limited less by material discovery than by the complex choreography of commercialisation.”
A central message of the article is the identification of a plateau effect: once a certain efficiency level is reached at laboratory scale, further gains deliver diminishing returns unless matched by advances in production yield, long-term operational stability, and overall factory economics. The Perspective draws on lessons from early pilot lines — including work directly relevant to LAPERITIVO’s own manufacturing development — as well as from analogue industries such as OLEDs, to highlight what it will take to create truly bankable perovskite PV products.
This publication is a direct reflection of the work being pursued within LAPERITIVO. Our project addresses precisely these challenges: developing large-area (≥900 cm²) bifacial semi-transparent perovskite solar modules using industrially scalable slot-die coating processes, with targets of 22% efficiency for opaque modules and 20% for semi-transparent ones. LAPERITIVO’s holistic approach — combining high efficiency, long-term outdoor stability, low environmental impact, and circularity — feeds directly into the kind of coordinated, application-driven roadmap that the article calls for.
The article also reinforces the urgency for Europe to accelerate its perovskite PV manufacturing ambitions, at a time when production scale-up is rapidly advancing in East Asia. LAPERITIVO, through its 20-partner consortium of research institutes, SMEs and major industrial players, is proud to contribute to this European effort.
The article draws in part on research carried out within LAPERITIVO, supported by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme.