The Michael Jordan of Solar Cells: New Technology Proves Its Lasting Power
30-year perovskite solar cells and the new technique for testing them for the long haul. Princeton Engineering scientists have developed the first perovskite solar cell…
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A New Breakthrough Could Make It Possible To Harvest Solar Power at Night
Australian researchers have created a device that can produce power from heat radiation using a similar mechanism to night-vision goggles. Following a significant advancement in…
Solar Powered Medical Devices: Sponge-Like Solar Cells for Better Pacemakers
Invented by University of Chicago scientists, a new kind of solar cell could spur useful technology. As solar technology has improved, with greater efficiencies and…
Artificial Intelligence Helps Scale Up Advanced Solar Cell Manufacturing
Perovskite materials would be superior to silicon in PV cells, but manufacturing such cells at scale is a huge hurdle. Machine learning can help. Perovskites…
New Materials Enable Cheaper Solar Cells That Are Easier To Make
New solar cell devices that are cheaper and easier to make could soon make their way to market thanks to materials made at Imperial College…
New Atomically Thin Material That Improves the Efficiency of Light-Based Tech: Solar Panels, Cameras, Biosensors
Cameras, solar panels, biosensors, and fiber optics are technologies that rely on photodetectors, or sensors that convert light into electricity. With the shrinking size of…
Researchers Set New World Record for Solar Cell Efficiency
A German research team has developed a tandem solar cell that reaches 24 percent efficiency – measured according to the fraction of photons converted into…
Collecting Solar Power Up in Orbit and Beaming It Down to the Ground for Use
Solar energy generation keeps on becoming cheaper and more efficient, but some basic limitations will always apply: solar panels can only generate power during the…
Harvesting Energy at Night: Solar Cell Keeps Working Long After Sun Sets
Harvesting energy from the temperature difference between photovoltaic cell, surrounding air leads to a viable, renewable source of electricity at night. About 750 million people…
Building-Block Solar Cells: Computer Algorithm Searches for New Materials for Better Organic Solar Cells
Organic, carbon-based, materials already see widespread use in displays today, but they are also promising materials for new solar cells. However, tailoring their properties is…
Predicting Semiconductor Solar Cell Performance From Terahertz and Microwave Spectroscopy
Many semiconducting materials are possible candidates for solar cells. In recent years, perovskite semiconductors in particular have attracted attention, as they are both inexpensive and…
Solar Modules With a Marble Look for House Facades
KIT Researchers demonstrate colored Perovskite Solar Modules for facades of houses. As of 2022, all new buildings in the state of Baden-Württemberg must be equipped…
Electricity Production on the Moon Is in the Hands of Estonians
Katriin Kristmann, a doctoral student in chemical and materials science at TalTech (Tallinn University of Technology), began research aimed at developing technology for the production…
New Materials Synthesized for Extremely High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells
A group of chemists from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania synthesized materials that were used for constructing a record-breaking perovskite solar module, with an…
New Photovoltaic Materials Developed by Stanford Scientists for Ultrathin, Lightweight Solar Panels
New, ultrathin photovoltaic materials could eventually be used in mobile applications, from self-powered wearable devices and sensors to lightweight aircraft and electric vehicles. A race…
Templating Approach Stabilizes “Ideal” Perovskite Material for Cheap, Efficient Solar Cells
Researchers have developed a method to stabilize a promising material known as perovskite for cheap solar cells, without compromising its near-perfect performance. The researchers, from…
Ultrathin Solar Cells Get a Boost – “Efficiencies of Perovskites Have Skyrocketed”
Using the Advanced Photon Source’s ultrabright X-rays, researchers have determined that sunlight itself can improve the efficiency of 2D materials used to collect solar energy….
MIT and Google Brain Create Tool To Speed Development of New Solar Cells
A new computational simulator can help predict whether changes to materials or design will improve performance in new photovoltaic cells. In the ongoing race to…
