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

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A unique technological solution for integrating high-definition images in solar panels

hese images aren’t just esthetically pleasing – thanks to the KALEO technology developed by CSEM, they are printed on so…

The improved output temperature coefficient leads to the almost halving of the decline in power generation efficiency during hot summer.

Because the combination of the high conversion efficiency, one of HIT®'s features, and these temperature characteristics…

These solar cells comprise three components: a semiconductor; dye, which acts as the light absorber; and redox molecules…

Researchers have developed a solar cell that widens the choice of colors without decreasing its power conversion efficie…

Varieties of concentrator photovoltaics exist today. They are made of three different semiconductor alloys layered toget…

The breakthrough paves the way for Sol Voltaics to bring its SolFilm™ PV solutions to market delivering solar module pow…

NIST, collaborators find first compelling evidence of new property known as “ferroelasticity” in perovskites.

A team led by Andrea Centrone at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Jinsong Huang and Alexei…

Engineers have invented tiny structures inspired by butterfly wings that open the door to new solar cell technologies an…

Although iodide is a component of the perovskite material itself, there are defects where iodide is missing. These vacan…

infinityPV provides low cost active inks for industrial production of flexible solar cells

infinityPV is now offering active layer inks for roll-to-roll fabrication of polymer solar cells. The inks, based on org…

A new material has been shown to have the capability to double the efficiency of solar cells by researchers at Purdue Un…

A new solar cell design could raise the energy conversion efficiency to over 50% by absorbing the spectral components of…

Perovskite PV technology demonstrated on industrially-applicable roll-to-roll processes

The roll-to-roll process was developed for both the electron transport and the perovskite layers on the new Solliance du…