In UCLA-led study, perovskite-based devices benefit from the strong bond between lead and the same chemical found in coffee and tea

To test whether caffeine would improve the device’s thermal stability, the team made a custom perovskite film by mixing…

Their findings have been published in the March 2019 issue of Nano Energy. The study finds key to produce perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells that display high efficiency (21.19%).

In the present study, the research team proposed a new method for optimizing the design of low-cost and high-efficiency…

Rutgers-led team finds a new way to control light emitted by a hybrid crystal

Their discovery involves crystals called hybrid perovskites, which consist of interlocking organic and inorganic materia…

New results show how varying the recipe could bring these materials closer to commercialization.

Conventional solar cells made of silicon must be processed at temperatures above 1,400 degrees Celsius, using expensive…

Their findings have been published in the November 2018 issue of Advanced Energy Materials.

A recent study, led by Professor Tae-Hyuk Kwon in the School of Natural Science at UNIST has taken a major step toward t…

Technology from the Atwater Lab makes metal contacts for solar cells effectively transparent

The technology, which is being marketed by a new startup company—ETC Solar, LLC—could potentially improve the output of…

While p-type PERC solar cells are becoming mainstream in the PV industry, n-type PERT technology is being developed as a…

Columbia Engineers make white paint whiter—and cooler—by removing white pigment and invent a polymer coating, with nano-to-microscale air voids, that acts as a spontaneous air cooler and can be fabricated, dyed, and applied like paint.

The researchers found their polymer coating’s high solar reflectance and high thermal emittance kept it significantly co…

NYU Tandon Professor André D. Taylor’s Research Team Combines Materials and Borrows Lessons from Nature to Build a Better Organic Solar Cell

The organic solar cells developed by his team are flexible and could one day be used in applications supporting electric…

There is great potential for organic solar cells to be integrated into buildings and vehicles, or even be incorporated i…

When photons from the sun are absorbed by the semiconducting polymer in a solar cell, electrons in the donor material ar…

For this new result they have optimized their high-efficiency silicon heterojunction bottom cell and developed an optica…

With stability still being an issue, researchers involved in the new SolarWAVE project are pursuing a breakthrough to de…

Imec, within the collaboration of EnergyVille, and Jolywood realize bifacial n-PERT cells with average 21.9 percent front-side efficiency

Imec also fabricated screen-printed monofacial nPERT cells with efficiencies up to 22.8 percent, which is a state-of-the…

Harbor Plus™ Smart Battery packs power and energy capacity for whole-home back-up and smart energy management

The solar-ready Harbor Plus Smart Battery is powered by six Panasonic Lithium-Ion battery modules connected in series fo…

Using these materials to convert sunlight into electricity, to make solar cells, is far more complex. The photo-excited…

The solar cells in the study are based on metal halide perovskites – a promising group of ionic semiconductor materials…

A technology in development that uses electric fields to sweep dust from solar panels has promise as a new self-cleaning…

The Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, l…

First, they designed a system that combines specialized layers to absorb both visible and infrared light. Essentially th…