Energy · Recorded milestone
Perovskite solar cell
Recorded year2009
Tsutomu Miyasaka's team in Japan makes the first perovskite solar cell at 3.8% efficiency; lab cells pass 25% within about 15 years.
Explore this milestone on the interactive mapBuilt on
Led to
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.