Device could coat windows, smartphone screens with energy-harvesting material

Nearly doubling the efficiency of a breakthrough photovoltaic cell they created last year, UCLA researchers have develop…

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an inexpensive new way to grow thin films of a mater…

A breakthrough discovery about titanium dioxide will significantly increase the efficiency of future solar devices, according to new research from scientists in University of Bath Department of Chemistry.

Publishing findings in the journal Nature Materials, researchers have uncovered how the popular photocatalyst used in so…

Stanford scientists have built the thinnest, most efficient absorber of visible light on record, a nanosize structure that could lead to less-costly, more efficient, solar cells.

The nanosize structure, thousands of times thinner than an ordinary sheet of paper, could lower the cost and improve the…

Water and some nano-structured iron oxide is all it takes to produce bubbles of solar hydrogen. EPFL and Technion scient…

New strategy focuses on production of cSi utility panels for Swiss Investor projects and innovative niche products for residential BIPV

Under the new strategy, Nanosolar GmbH is being re-structured and will focus its operations on two new products; a cSi b…

A group of Cambridge students are hoping that their game-changing design of solar car will make them the first British winners of the World Solar Challenge.

A group of Cambridge students are hoping that their game-changing design of solar car will make them the first British w…

The new 880 kVA solar inverter solution supports up to 1300 kWp. Its integrated power stack PV core enables an input DC…

A researcher at the University of York is to showcase her work on solar fuels at a public exhibition hosted by The Royal…

Researchers at LMU have developed a new method for visualizing material defects in thin-film solar cells.

An LMU research team led by Bert Nickel has, for the first time, succeeded in functionally characterizing the active lay…

The modules will be manufactured in Germany. Like every other solar panel from the manufacturer, Senersun EU-made panels…

Atom-thick photovoltaic sheets could pack hundreds of times more power per weight than conventional solar cells.

Most efforts at improving solar cells have focused on increasing the efficiency of their energy conversion, or on loweri…

Devices with wide bandgap semiconductors will offer the greater competitive advantage in microinverters and small string inverters, Lux Research says

As devices featuring GaN and SiC hit the market, they’ll offer the biggest competitive advantage in small systems – micr…

What is the simplest molecule capable of transforming solar energy into electricity? A team from the Institut des Scienc…

The World Solar Challenge is an 1,800-mile, week-long endurance contest across the continent of Australia that takes pla…

Robotic Solution Installs Twice as Fast and with Less than Half the Labor

ROVER, Alion Energy’s automated installation vehicle, and SPOT, their robotic cleaning solution, are part of Alion Energ…

Researchers at Chalmers have found an effective solution for collecting sunlight for artificial photosynthesis. By combi…

Rice, Penn State labs lay groundwork for block copolymer solar cells

The photovoltaic devices created in a project led by Rice chemical engineer Rafael Verduzco and Penn State chemical engi…

After two years of turmoil the solar industry is set to rebound, and surviving stakeholders have a fresh new outlook that’s ripe for investment, says Lux Research.

After two years of turmoil the solar industry is set to rebound, and surviving stakeholders have a fresh new outlook tha…

MIT team finds that the ratio of component atoms is vital to performance.

There has been great interest in recent years in using tiny particles called quantum dots to produce low-cost, easily ma…