Liquid Inks Create More Efficient and Cheaper Solar Cells
A team of scientists from the California NanoSystems Institute is using liquid inks to create better solar cells, improving efficiency and lowering costs. The basic…
A team of scientists from the California NanoSystems Institute is using liquid inks to create better solar cells, improving efficiency and lowering costs. The basic…
Material scientists from the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University have created a new type of carbon nanotubes solar cell that is twice as…
Engineers at MIT recycle dangerous waste materials from discarded car batteries, revealing that the lead from a single car battery could produce enough solar panels…
By combining two semiconductor materials, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have developed a new material that allows for ultra-thin solar cells. Extremely thin,…
A new approach developed by Los Alamos researchers demonstrates that appropriately engineered core/shell nanostructures made of lead selenide and cadmium selenide (PbSe and CdSe) can…
Scientists have developed a new, inexpensive material that has the potential to convert solar energy more efficiently than ever before. Argonne, Illinois — Getting the…
By modifying the molecular structure of a polymer used in solar cells, an international team of researchers has increased solar efficiency by more than thirty…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Based on the photon-enhanced thermionic emission (PETE) process, a new solar-energy device is about 100 times more efficient than its previous design. Scientists working at…
In two newly published studies, Yale researchers detail a cost-effective way to improve the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells through the use of carbon…
In a newly published study, an international team of scientists has shown that layered oxide heterostructures can be used to create a new kind of…
Researchers at Princeton University have used nanotechnology to develop a nanotechnological mesh that increases efficiency over organic solar cells nearly threefold. The scientists published their…
Scientists at Stanford University have put together the first solar cell that’s entirely made up of carbon, which is a promising alternative to the expensive…