Ultra-high efficiency solar cells similar to those used in space may now be possible on your rooftop thanks to a new mic…

SoCore Energy Selects Sunny Tripower Inverters for 44 Movie Theater, Shipping and Retail Locations

SoCore chose the Sunny Tripower TL-US three-phase, transformerless inverter for 44 PV projects by Fortune 500 companies…

U of T experts suggest crystalized materials may hold wide commercial potential

U of T experts are shining new light on an emerging family of solar-absorbing materials that could lead to cheaper and m…

New and improved solar panels could result from the discovery of a new liquid crystal material, making printable organic…

ETH researchers have developed a comprehensive model to explain how electrons flow inside new types of solar cells made…

A research team led by North Carolina State University has developed a new technique for determining the role that a mat…

Putting a film of the crystalline material perovskite on top of a silicon solar cell increases the cell's efficiency nearly 50 percent, say Stanford scientists.

Stacking perovskites, a crystalline material, onto a conventional silicon solar cell dramatically improves the overall e…

Silicon-based thin-film solar cell with a supplementary organic layer can utilise infrared light as well

Silicon-based thin-film solar cell with a supplementary organic layer can utilise infrared light as well

In thin-film PV cell manufacturing, high-resolution thermal imagers monitor the

Finds Origin of Burn-in Loss in Device Lifetime

A Korean research team has developed polymer solar cells with 10-year lifetime expectancy. Their research is expected to…

University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers have doubled the efficiency of a prominent solar cell technology by unraveling…

The world-beating efficiency was achieved in outdoor tests in Sydney, before being independently confirmed by the Nation…

Solar cells can only use photons with energies above a specific threshold to generate electricity. A German-Australian r…

First great breakthrough in UT research that should lead to 'solar to fuel' machine

By equipping a semiconductor, with which you can convert sunlight into electricity, with micropillars, you can increase…

Arnold leads a research team that focuses on the study of advanced electronic materials for photovoltaic solar energy, e…

Data storage pattern transferred to solar cell increases light absorption

Blu-ray discs contain a higher density of data than DVDs or CDs, and it is this quasi-random pattern, perfected by engin…

Solar energy from photovoltaic installations is, actually, considered ecologically beneficial. But most of the photovolt…

Researchers from North Carolina State University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have found that temp…

Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for Micro-Photonics have successfully synthesised one-dimensi…

Many high school students have zapped water with electricity to make hydrogen and oxygen. To turn that chemical process into a type of battery, researchers adapt ideas from oil refineries.

Right now there is no cost-effective, large-scale way to store solar energy. The Stanford researchers believe that elect…