These novel solar cells achieve an impressive stabilised efficiency of 24.35% - the highest for perovskite solar cells (active area of 1 cm2) to date

The promising results reported by the NUS team mark a pivotal milestone in advancing the commercialization of a low-cost…

This remarkable binary OSC efficiency will help enhance applications of these advanced solar energy devices

A 'simple' tweak to perovskite solar cells during the fabrication stage could help to unlock the untold potential of the renewable energy source, claims research from the University of Surrey.

Perovskite solar cells are widely considered the natural successor to silicon-based solar devices because of their high…

Solar cells work by converting light into electrons, whose energy can be collected and harvested. A hot solar cell is a…

The SolarBotanic™ Tree is unique to the market and the result of five years of planning research and design, and feature…

The new prototype solar module, which uses a triple-junction compound design, is both lightweight and flexible thanks to…

EPFL and CSEM smash through the 30% efficiency barrier for perovskite-on-silicon-tandem solar cells—setting two certified world records

Increasing the power conversion efficiency of solar cells is important for two reasons. In the long run, it is the most…

An international team of researchers from ICFO, University College London, and Imperial College London, report on a novel disorder-engineering technique for inorganic solar cells that achieves a record-breaking power conversion efficiency.

In their study, the researchers cleverly engineered the layer of nanocrystals in the cell with an unconventional approac…

The solar cells are dual sided, meaning both the front and back of the cell generate power

After four years of work, the researchers succeeded in creating solar cells with new materials in which losses due to in…

Their findings have been published in the April 2021 issue of Nature.

Published in the April 2021 issue of Nature, their findings are expected to pave the way for facile access to high-perfo…

Lightyear’s solar car prototype drives over 440 miles on a single battery charge

The concept of a long-range solar car represents a huge opportunity to change mobility, so you can drive for months with…

Nanostructured material and a new cell design pave the way for the production of silicon solar cells with more than 26 percent efficiency

Several process steps were necessary to produce the layers of the TPC solar cell.. On a thin layer of silicon dioxide, t…

In the next stage of their research, the team plans to optimize their technique further by fabricating the perovskite so…

In a review article published in Nature Energy, researchers from CNRS highlight the dynamism and richness of the researc…

The scientists first improved the interface between the perovskite active layer and the electron transport layer, by add…

Guo is continuing to move the technology forward, collaborating on a project that uses transparent conductors in solar c…

Researchers at Cambridge, Imperial and Singapore have developed a method to print ultrathin coatings on next-generation…

Microscopic structures could further improve perovskite solar cells

By combining two microscopy methods, the researchers were able to show that electrons move much faster parallel to the s…

In the quantum scale, atoms vibrate, and they vibrate faster when they are heated. It is these vibrations that interact…