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…

The Department of Applied Physics of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has successfully developed efficient and low-c…

New technology could revolutionize the solar industry by allowing for significantly more power generation from a single device by simply making it smaller

The Shockley-Queisser limit describes the maximum solar energy conversion efficiency achievable for a particular materia…

Inverted perovskite hybrid structure without hysteresis getting ready for commercialization

The new inverted MAPbI3 planar perovskite hybrid solar cells have demonstrated superior device performance on par with t…

Process uses light-harvesting nanoparticles, captures energy from ‘hot electrons’

The technology, which is described online in the American Chemical Society journal Nano Letters, relies on a configurati…

The researchers currently applying these nanomaterials within photovoltaic cells where their unique properties can be us…

INDIA has become the latest country to adopt the world-leading renewable energy technology being developed in Australia.

South Australian company HeliostatSA has partnered with Indian company Global Wind Power Limited to develop a portfolio…

Because organic solar cells are flexible they could find new applications that are unsuitable for rigid silicon cells su…

The efficiency of perovskite solar cells has seen a rapid increase in recent years. But the fundamental properties of th…

Yale researchers have significantly increased the efficiency of a polymer solar cell by using a technique that mimics ho…

Chemists have found a new, more efficient method to perform light-driven reactions, opening up another possible pathway…

The goal of this new technology is to create cost-effective energy that may be used in the commercial market. For a cons…