Silicon wafers are the heart of solar cells. However, manufacturing them is not cheap. Over 50 percent of the pure silic…

In a new paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Kenneth H…

New UMD imaging technique could yield more efficient solar cells

A new diagnostic imaging technique developed by a University of Maryland -led team of researchers promises to boost effi…

Solar cells are generally flat. However, by adding minuscule silicon pillars to the surface, it is possible to more than…

Nanostructured germanium for portable photovoltaics and battery electrodes

By integrating suitable organic polymers into the pores of the material, the scientists can custom tailor the electrical…

Use of X-rays at SPring-8 for first-ever confirmation of an anomalous diffusion phenomenon in the crystallization process

The formation process of the power-generating layer of organolead perovskite solar cells was observed in detail by using…

Stanford scientists have discovered how to make the electrical wiring on top of solar cells nearly invisible to incoming light. The new design, which uses silicon nanopillars to hide the wires, could dramatically boost solar-cell efficiency.

Stanford scientists have discovered how to make the electrical wiring on top of solar cells nearly invisible to incoming…

Tandem solar cells are simply better

The secret behind the new process is that the researchers create the top solar cell perovskite film with a low-temperatu…

Researchers have found a way to get more sun to shine on the panels and crank up the output by 30 percent or more. The w…

ICFO and Corning demonstrate highly flexible transparent conductive substrates in efficient polymer solar cells

The team has also built polymer solar cells on the transparent conductive substrates, not only have demonstrated to achi…

They seem common glass for windows, but are plastic plates with fluorescent nanoparticles that capture and concentrate l…

An international team of scientists have observed how a mysterious quantum phenomenon in organic molecules takes place i…

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have found a new way to capture energy from sunlight – by using molecules that…

Currently, the most common electrode material in perovskite solar cells is gold, which is extremely expensive. A low-cos…

This advancement by UCLA researchers will help in development of these solar cells for commercial use

The new cell construction extends the cell’s effective life in air by more than 10 times, with only a marginal loss of e…

Using a newly developed fabrication method, a research team has attained better than a 15-percent energy conversion effi…

Latest SolarWindow™ products to turn existing commercial glass on tall towers into electricity generating windows — no replacement required.

Engineers envision installing SolarWindow™ products on all four sides of tall towers, generating electricity using natur…

Invisibility Cloak Principle: Material Hides Contact Fingers that Extract Current from Solar Cells and Cover the Active Surface – Measurements Confirm Cloaking Effect

Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have now published an unconventional approach to increasing the efficien…

The challenge for thin-film solar cells is that the absorber material is so thin that much light can be lost by passing…

Solar cells capture up to 40 percent more energy when they can track the sun across the sky, but conventional, motorized…