Improving Solar Cell Efficiency With Nanowire Arrays
Transparent electrodes are a critical component of solar cells and electronic displays. To collect electricity in a solar cell or inject electricity for a display,…
Solar Cells
New Dual-Layer Solar Cell Sets Record for Efficiently Generating Power
Materials scientists from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have developed a highly efficient thin-film solar cell that generates more energy from sunlight than typical…
Hybrid Perovskites Improve Solar Cell Efficiency
Photons with energy higher than the ‘band gap’ of the semiconductor absorbing them give rise to what are known as hot electrons. The extra energy…
RIR-MAPLE Technique Opens New Possibilities for Light-Based Technologies
Materials scientists at Duke University have developed a method to create hybrid thin-film materials that would otherwise be difficult or impossible to make. The technique…
Guanidinium Helps Stabilizes Perovskite Solar Cells
Incorporating guanidinium into perovskite solar cells stabilizes their efficiency at 19% for 1000 hours under full-sunlight testing conditions. The study, carried out by EPFL, is…
DMSO Treatment Could Transform Solar Cells, Boosts Efficiency
Researchers at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science have discovered a modification to perovskite solar cells, which could lead to a new generation…
Engineers Design a New Solar Cell That is More Efficient and Costs Less
Engineers from MIT and the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology have developed a new solar cell that combines two different layers of sunlight-absorbing material…
Nanoscientists Improve the Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
UCLA researchers have taken a step towards next-generation perovskite solar cells by using a metal oxide “sandwich.” The new design extends the cell’s effective life…
New Fabrication Method Improves Efficiency of Perovskite Solar Cells
Scientists from Brown University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have developed a method for making perovskite cells larger while maintaining efficiency. Using a newly…
Organic Semiconductor Breakthrough Could Literally Reshape Solar Cells
A team of materials scientists have discovered a way to make organic semiconductors more powerful and more efficient, growing organic semiconductor crystals vertically for first…
SEAS Engineers Develop More Efficient Solar Cells
Using a technique that mimics how plants use solar energy and forcing two otherwise incompatible molecules to work together to cover the full color spectrum,…
New Shortcut Simplifies the Production of Solar Cells
By using the top electrode as the catalyst that turns plain silicon into valuable black silicon, scientists from Rice University have developed a way to…
New “Tandem” Solar Cell to Harnesses More Sunlight
By combining two types of photovoltaic material, researchers from MIT and Stanford have developed a new “tandem” solar cell that harnesses more sunlight. Researchers at…
Researchers Develop a Better Method for Making Perovskite Solar Cells
Using perovskite, engineers from Brown University have developed a cheap, efficient alternative to silicon-based solar cells. Providence, Rhode Island (Brown University) — Research led by…
New Hybrid Materials Could Far Surpass the Current Solar Efficiency Limits
Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed a new method for transferring energy from organic to inorganic semiconductors that could boost the efficiency of…
Researchers Investigated the Charge Transport Perovskite Solar Cells
New insights into the working mechanism of perovskite-based solar cells could help these solar cells play a prominent role among the renewable energy carriers in…
Engineers Develop New System to Harness the Full Spectrum of Available Solar Radiation
Engineers at MIT have developed a two-dimensional metallic dielectric photonic crystal that has the ability to absorb sunlight from a wide range of angles while…
New “Gold Nanocluster” Technology Improves Solar Cell Performance
Using approximately 10,000 times less gold than in previous studies, researchers from Western University improve solar power performance with new “gold nanocluster” technology. Scientists at…