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…

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…