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…

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…