Quantum Dots Make Photovoltaic Solar-Panel Windows Possible
A new study from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Milano-Bicocca demonstrates that superior light-emitting properties of quantum dots can be applied in…
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New System Filters Light Waves Based on Direction
Researchers from MIT have produced a system that allows light of any color to pass through only if it is coming from one specific angle….
Scientists Create New Electronic Material with Potential for Flexible Light-Based Electronics
By heating molybdenum and selenium in a vacuum chamber until they evaporated, a team of scientists was able to create an exotic thin film with…
Researchers Demonstrate a New Paradigm for Solar Cell Construction
Using perovskite crystals fabricated with a combination of potassium niobate and barium nickel niobate, a team of researchers has experimentally demonstrated a new paradigm for…
Oxford Researchers Creating Simpler, Cheaper Solar Cells
By working to improve perovskite cell efficiency, scientists at Oxford University are creating simpler and cheaper solar cells. Over the last four years, solar cells…
Aluminum Studs Improve Solar Panel Efficiency
Scientists at the Imperial College London have shown that the efficiency of solar panel designs can be improved by up to 22 percent by covering…
New Possibilities for Graphene in Thin-Film Photovoltaics
In a newly published study, researchers from the HZB Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics have shown that graphene retains its properties when coated with a thin…
Plasmonic Nanostructures Offer New Method for Harvesting Energy from Light
Using materials fabricated from gold particles and light-sensitive molecules of porphyin, researchers have developed a new method for harvesting energy form light. Researchers from the…
New 3D Graphene Material – An Inexpensive Replacement for Platinum in Solar Cells
A team of researchers has developed a 3D graphene material with a honeycomb-like structure that can replace the platinum in dye-sensitized solar cells without degrading…
Disordered Nature of Plastic Polymers Can Improve Performance of Plastic Solar Cells
In a new study, Stanford scientists explain how disorder at the molecular level can improve the performance of plastic solar cells, which could to the…
Manipulating Electron ‘Spin’ Dramatically Improves Organic Solar Cell Performance
In a newly published study, researchers detail how manipulating the ‘spin’ of electrons in organic solar cells dramatically improves their performance, providing a vital breakthrough…
Scientists Grow Inexpensive High-End Photovoltaic Compounds
In an effort to bring high-end photovoltaics to the masses, UC Berkeley scientists have developed an inexpensive way to grow indium phosphide, a III-V compound…
Organic Photovoltaics Potentially as Inexpensive as Paint
Researchers at the University at Buffalo are working on the development of organic photovoltaics that use polymers and small molecules that are carbon-based and can…
Squaraine Dye Improves Polymer Solar Cell Efficiency
By adding a squaraine dye into polymer solar cells that are based on Forster resonance energy transfer, Yale scientists achieved a 38 percent increase in…
Combining Graphene and TMDC Could Lead to the Next Generation of Solar Cells
Using graphene with monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC), scientists from the University of Manchester and National University of Singapore developed extremely sensitive and efficient…
New Technique Yields a Major Boost in Solar-Cell Efficiency
In a newly published study, MIT researchers detail the technique they used to develop a photovoltaic device that generates more than one electron per photon,…
‘Artificial Leaf’ Self Heals and Produces Energy from Dirty Water
At the 245th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, Dr. Nocera described recent advances in the “artificial leaf,” such as the ability…
Solar Photovoltaic Industry is Likely a Net Electricity Provider
A new study from Stanford researchers suggest that electricity generated by all of the world’s installed solar photovoltaic (PV) panels has caught up to the…
