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…

Researchers identified a new polymer — a type of large molecule that forms plastics and other familiar materials — which…

Just about everything we touch in the course of a day - car, phone, computer, fridge, detergent - even medicines, rely o…

Solar cell film made from kesterite or perovskite absorbs energy more efficiently and is cheaper to manufacture

The basic function of solar cells is to harvest sunlight and turn it into electricity. Thus, it is critically important…

Researchers have developed a tube-type nanostructure to dramatically increase the light absorption rate of silicon. Sili…

U ENGINEERS DESIGN NEW OPTICAL ELEMENT TO SORT SUNLIGHT

University of Utah electrical engineers have designed a thin layer made of a transparent plastic or glass that sorts and…

A team of researchers at Michigan State University has developed a new type of solar concentrator that when placed over…

Proposal could divert a dangerous waste stream while producing low-cost photovoltaics.

A system proposed by researchers at MIT recycles materials from discarded car batteries — a potential source of lead pol…

Conventional solar cells can only convert a small part of the solar spectrum into electricity efficiently. Low-energy li…

21.0 percent conversion efficiency research cell certified at Newport TAC Lab

This certified result bests the previous CdTe record of 20.4 percent conversion efficiency, which was set by First Solar…

It will be the largest solar photovoltaic research facility in the southern hemisphere and support innovation in

Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have managed to combine two semiconductor materials, consisting of only three atomic layers each. This new structure holds great promise for a new kinds of solar cell.

Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have managed to combine two semiconductor materials, consisting of onl…

The researchers will use the state-of-the-art equipment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to understand how th…

New spongelike structure converts solar energy into steam.

The new material is able to convert 85 percent of incoming solar energy into steam