Materials that can slow the cooling of highly energetic hot carriers could capture extra energy from the Sun. Two-dimensional solar materials may offer a way…
Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) achieved a technological breakthrough for solar cells previously thought impossible. The scientists successfully integrated an aluminum source…
Combining silicon with a highly elastic polymer backing produces solar cells that have record-breaking stretchability and high efficiency. Crystalline silicon solar panels could be just…
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) in a collaboration with the University of Groningen (UG) in the Netherlands, have developed a method to…
Freestanding Microwire-Array Enables Flexible Solar Windows TSCs are emerging devices that combine the advantages of visible transparency and light-to-electricity conversion. One of the valuable prospective…
As a result of their two-year joint project, the materials researchers of Tallinn University of Technology have improved the efficiency of next generation solar cells…
Engineers have characterized the thermal energy conversion mechanism in the lattice of an advanced nanomaterial called chalcogenide perovskite and demonstrated its ‘tunability’ — important for…
Discovery means simpler and cheaper manufacturing methods are actually beneficial for the material’s use in next-generation solar cells or LED lighting. Scientists at the University…
New material should be relatively easy to produce at an industrial scale, researchers say. MIT researchers have improved on a transparent, conductive coating material, producing…
The efficiency of solar panels is hampered by a ‘Goldilocks’ problem: the light needs to have just the right amount of energy to be converted…
Using crystallographic analyses at the Diamond Light Source (DLS) synchrotron in the United Kingdom, an HZB team has demonstrated that hybrid halide perovskites crystallize without…
A new type of material for next-generation solar cells eliminates the need to use lead, which has been a major roadblock for this technology. Solar…
A research team from Nuremberg and Erlangen has set a new record for the power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic modules (OPV). The scientists from…
Rice University materials scientists use inorganic ingredients to limit defects, retain efficiency. Rice University scientists believe they’ve overcome a major hurdle keeping perovskite-based solar cells…
Scientific instrument made at McGill reveals liquid-like properties of a solid substance. McGill University researchers have gained tantalizing new insights into the properties of perovskites,…
Next-generation solar cells that mimic photosynthesis with biological material may give new meaning to the term “green technology.” Adding the protein bacteriorhodopsin (bR) to perovskite…
A research team from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Kanazawa University developed an eco-friendly device that uses solar energy to catalyze an electrochemical…
Scientists from NUST MISIS (Russia) and University of Rome Tor Vergata found out that a microscopic quantity of two-dimensional titanium carbide called MXene significantly improves…