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Mechanochemistry paves the way to higher quality perovskite photovoltaics

The unexpected improvement of the photovoltaic performance was observed when perovskites produced by mechanochemistry we…

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Wallpaper bio-solar panel developed by researchers

A two-in-one solar bio-battery and solar panel has been created by researchers who printed living cyanobacteria and circ…

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Enhancing Solar Power With ‘Jewels of the Sea’

These small creatures could prove to be particularly valuable for the design of solar technologies known as organic phot…

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UNIST researchers develop highly stable perovskite solar cells

The newly-developed perovskite solar cell device was fabricated using solution processes, a process that involves the co…

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Transparent solar technology represents 'wave of the future'

See-through solar materials that can be applied to windows represent a massive source of untapped energy and could harve…

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UNIST Researchers Develop Wearable Solar Thermoelectric Generator

Their findings, published in the September issue of the prestigious journal Nano Energy

In this study, Professor Choi and his team designed a noble wearable solar thermoelectric generator by integrating flexi…

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New records for the solar cell of tomorrow

A team of researchers from CSEM, NREL and EPFL generate 32.8% and 35.9% record efficiencies with silicon-based multi-junction solar cells.

By working together again, the scientists team from CSEM, a Swiss research and technology center, EPFL, and NREL, have b…

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Defects in next-generation solar cells can be healed with light

In the new study, the team made a perovskite-based device, printed using techniques compatible with scalable roll-to-rol…

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Australian Blockchain-Platform Launch Cryptocurrency Sale To Change the Face of Energy Trading

Power Ledger’s Token Generation Event Will Drive Global Reach of Blockchain-Enabled Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading Platform

Power Ledger’s blockchain-enabled platform creates peer-to-peer renewable energy marketplaces. Participating in such a m…

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Insect eyes inspire new solar cell design by Stanford researchers

A new solar cell inspired by the compound eyes of insects could help scientists overcome a major roadblock to the development of solar panels based on a promising material called perovskite.

Packing tiny solar cells together, like micro-lenses in the compound eye of an insect, could pave the way to a new gener…

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Newest solar cells underperform in cloudy countries

The researchers developed their own model to predict the expected electricity yield of these tandem solar cells under re…

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Osaka solar scientists rough up silicon panels to boost light capture

Osaka University research team modifies the surface texture of both the front and back of silicon solar cells to cheaply…

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Researchers use polystyrene to make next-generation of solar panels even cheaper

Researchers from The University of Manchester are using polystyrene particles rather than expensive polymers to make the…

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Imec Reports Record Conversion Efficiency of 23.9 Percent on a 4cm^2 Perovskite/Silicon Solar Module

Reaching this level, imec is the first to achieve a module-on-cell stack that outperforms the standalone silicon solar c…

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Solar Glasses Generate Solar Power

In the Energy Technology journal, researchers from KIT now present sunglasses with colored, semitransparent solar cells…

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Self-powered system makes smart windows smarter

Smart windows equipped with controllable glazing can augment lighting, cooling and heating systems by varying their tint, saving up to 40 percent in an average building’s energy costs.

But by applying a new solar cell technology, researchers at Princeton University have developed a different type of smar…

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Atomic Movies May Help Explain Why Perovskite Solar Cells Are More Efficient

SLAC's Ultrafast 'Electron Camera' Captures Surprising Atomic Motions in These Next-Generation Materials

The results from the Lindenberg group provide fascinating first-time insights into the properties of hybrid perovskites…

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Non-toxic alternative for next-generation solar cells

Researchers have demonstrated how a non-toxic alternative to lead could form the basis of next-generation solar cells.

The Cambridge researchers have shown that bismuth, which sits next to lead in the periodic table, could be a non-toxic a…

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Scientists Design Solar Cell that Captures Nearly All Energy of Solar Spectrum

New Technology Creates Highly Efficient New Type of Solar Cell

The new design converts direct sunlight to electricity with 44.5 percent efficiency, giving it the potential to become t…

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SolarEdge Launching First PV Inverter-Integrated Electric Vehicle Charger

SolarEdge to offer the fastest AC EV charging rates by supplementing grid power with PV power

SolarEdge’s HD-Wave inverter, once integrated with an EV charger, will not only provide the existing management and moni…

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