Featuring a transparent backside and comparable front- and back contact schemes, bifacial solar cells capture light on b…

The study finds key to produce perovskite solar cells that display both high efficiency (21.2%) and long-term stability (1,000 hours of light exposure).

A recent study, affiliated with UNIST has presented a new cost-efficient way to produce inorganic-organic hybrid perovsk…

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have demonstrated efficient solar energy storage in a chemica…

Nanoparticles at the back help harvesting the light.

CIGSe solar cells consist of Copper, Indium, Gallium and Selenide in a chalcopyrite structure and convert light into ele…

Researchers lengthened the lifetime of perovskite solar cells by using nanotube film to replace the gold used as the back contact in the hole conductor.

Researchers have managed to improve the long term stability of solar cells made of perovskite using

Represents Significant Progress toward Power Generation Cost Targets

This achievement in silicon solar cell modules, which are the most popular type in the world, represents significant pro…

The new molecule harvests sunlight to create useable material from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

The chemists have engineered a molecule that uses light or electricity to convert the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Milano-Bicocca are bringing the dream of windows that can e…

New University of Toronto Engineering research removes a key barrier to large-scale manufacture of low-cost, printable perovskite solar cells

A U of T Engineering innovation could make printing solar cells as easy and inexpensive as printing a newspaper

Researchers at LiU, together with Chinese and American colleagues, have developed organic solar cells with a significant…

Startup brings solar-powered, phone-charging park benches and digital signs to cities worldwide.

Recently, Changing Environments starting deploying its second solar-powered product, the Soofa Sign, in Metro Boston spo…

Using hot polarons to harvest sunlight

The mechanism behind the new solid-state solar cell made of the mineral perovskite relies on so-called polaron excitatio…

The next generation of solar panels are as thin as paper. Bendable and transparent. Just like foil, they can be rolled o…

Measurement shows potential for building better solar cells by imaging fundamental properties of the material

The scientists directly measured the distance traveled—called diffusion length—for the first time by using the technique…

Researchers develop a simple processing technique that could cut the cost of organic photovoltaics and wearable electronics

With a new technique for manufacturing single-layer organic polymer solar cells, scientists at UC Santa Barbara and thre…

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new strategy for fabricating more efficient plastic so…

The researchers created a new smart window by sandwiching a polymer matrix containing microdroplets of liquid crystal ma…

Scientists in South Korea have made ultra-thin photovoltaics flexible enough to wrap around the average pencil. The bend…

In the new study, scientists looked at solar cells made from materials known as perovskites. These can be produced cheap…

Researchers at TU Eindhoven have gained a new world record for the efficiency of nanowire-based solar cells: 17.8 percen…