The new system can reduce the cost of producing solar panels and generate more electricity for longer periods compared with traditional cells

This technique makes the cells thicker because it consumes a significant amount of silicon in the process. Black silicon…

Imperial researchers have determined how oxygen and light degrade promising new solar cells and have proposed an innovat…

Polymer solar cells are a hot area of research due to both their strong future potential and the significant challenges…

A UTS research team is claiming a first in super cool roof technology with a surface that stays cooler than the ambient…

Invisible ClearView Power™ Film Covers Displays to Power Mobile Devices and Extend Battery Life

Implemented as a fully transparent film that covers a device's display area, ClearView Power technology transmits light…

Researchers from Wake Forest University and the University of Utah are the first to successfully fabricate halide organi…

Rice University discovery employs electrodes as catalysts to make black silicon

Rice University scientists have found a way to simplify the manufacture of solar cells by using the top electrode as the…

A research team at HZB has developed an inkjet printing technology to produce kesterite thin film absorbers. Based on th…

New Tempo™ metallization system can increase cell efficiencies at significant cost savings

New Tempo platforms are successfully being used today by multiple PV manufacturers worldwide. Among the first customers…

A new study published online April 30 in the journal Science by University of Washington and University of Oxford resear…

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have invented a novel electrical power converter system that simul…

KIT Scientists Measure Important Process in the Conversion of Light Energy – Publication in Nature Communications

Researchers of KIT have now carried out experiments using photoactive zinc oxide material in order to study the formatio…

New study identifies the promise and challenges facing large-scale deployment of solar photovoltaics.

In a broad new assessment of the status and prospects of solar photovoltaic technology, MIT researchers say that it is

Researchers combine two types of photovoltaic material to make a cell that harnesses more sunlight.

Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a new kind of solar cell that combines two different layers of…

This unique self-tinting window requires zero electricity to operate and is also a rechargeable battery. The window’s st…

University of Utah study of magnetic field effects could help researchers to fully optimize organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells

University of Utah study of magnetic field effects could help researchers to fully optimize organic-inorganic hybrid per…

Researchers at Brown University have developed a new method for making solar cells from perovskite — a faster, more stra…

A research team from the University of Kassel recently developed a building material that simultaneously functions as a…

This exciting achievement brings us one step closer to exploiting the sun’s energy

It is known that hydrogen is a clean and transportable carrier for renewable energy. Thus water splitting to produce hyd…