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…

UC Riverside researchers find a way to use the infrared region of the sun’s spectrum to make solar cells more efficient

UC Riverside researchers find a way to use the infrared region of the sun’s spectrum to make solar cells more efficient

Scientists studying thin layers of phosphorus have found surprising properties that could open the door to ultrathin and…

The electricity produced by a solar cell can be used to set off chemical reactions. If this generates a fuel, then one s…

Plasmonics study suggests how to maximize production of ‘hot electrons’

New research from Rice University could make it easier for engineers to harness the power of light-capturing nanomateria…

Hunting for the best material from which to build organic solar cells can be like seeking the proverbial haystack needle…

The discovery could help to enhance efficiencies of perovskite thin film solar cells by controlled processing to optimiz…

New ultralow-power circuit improves efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80 percent.

The circuit’s chief function is to regulate the voltages between the solar cell, the battery, and the device the cell is…

New Material Based on Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs) Is Suited for Photovoltaics/Publication in the Journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Researchers at KIT have developed a material suited for photo-voltaics. For the first time, a functioning organic solar…

«Sharc25» aims at 25% efficiency with thin-film solar cells

A European research project launched in May, is setting out to develop extremely efficient thin-film solar cells for the…

The research group at the NIMS Photovoltaic Materials Unit achieved 15 percent energy conversion efficiency in perovskit…

Crystalline semiconductors like silicon can catch photons and convert their energy into electron flows. New research shows a little stretching could give one of silicon's lesser-known cousins its own place in the sun.

Crystalline semiconductors like silicon can catch photons and convert their energy into electron flows. New research sho…

Technology Has Potential to Increase Worldwide Accessibility of Solar Energy

Through research funded by the Department of Energy, the UCF-developed microinverter technology has the potential to sig…

A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks