Rice University labs create novel electrode for dye-sensitized cells

Rice University scientists have invented a novel cathode that may make cheap, flexible dye-sensitized solar cells practi…

3D microscope at DESY investigates flexible polymer tandem solar cells

The scientists used a production process, where the different layers of a polymer solar cell are coated from various sol…

The researchers have developed a new class of materials comprising elements such as bismuth, iron, chromium, and oxygen.…

Researchers at DTU Energy Conversion are now able to manufacture multilayer plastic solar cells with the potential to ca…

CSEM has developed a new technology to make white solar modules, with no visible cells and connections, a reality. It co…

Collecting light with artificial moth eyes

All over the world researchers are investigating solar cells which imitate plant photosynthesis, using sunlight and wate…

Utility Power System Delivers Higher Energy Yields, Lower Capital and Operating Expenditures

This compact, DC-to-AC system solution for utility-scale PV consists of advanced engineered components, including the ne…

An emerging class of electrically conductive plastics called radical polymers may bring low-cost, transparent solar cell…

A new method for transferring energy from organic to inorganic semiconductors could boost the efficiency of widely used…

Researchers at the FOM Institute AMOLF have taken the first steps towards making a high performance solar cell by coatin…

New insights into working mechanism indicate how novel perovskite solar cells can be further optimised

Conventional silicon solar cells could have an inexpensive competitor in the near future. Researchers from the Max Planc…

Current solar cells have an efficiency of about 15 percent. In theory the efficiency might be improved to as high as 85…

UMass Amherst scientists use graphene in new energy conversion architecture

Using a bio-mimicking analog of one of nature’s most efficient light-harvesting structures, blades of grass, an internat…

World’s first “solar battery” runs on light and air

Key to the innovation is a mesh solar panel, which allows air to enter the battery, and a special process for transferri…

Researchers of the ipv developed laser processes for the production of back contacted solar cells without any masking. L…

Photovoltaic devices, also known as solar cells, produce electrical power when exposed to light, and that technology has…

New system aims to harness the full spectrum of available solar radiation.

Now researchers at MIT say they have accomplished the development of a material that comes very close to the ideal for s…

Solar Leader to Power and Maintain 140 MW Kingston Solar Project

SMA Service will assume operational management of the Kingston Solar project upon commercial operation, and for the next…

In Science, UMass Amherst researchers tell how they broke the ‘electrode barrier’

For decades, polymer scientists and synthetic chemists working to improve the power conversion efficiency of organic sol…

Findings promise wide-ranging advances from clean energy to new sensors

The UMD team created a fundamentally new synthesis strategy for hybrid nanostructures that they and other scientists say…