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…
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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…
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…
New Type of CNT Solar Cell is Twice as Efficient as Its Predecessors
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…
MIT Engineers Recycle Old Batteries Into Solar Cells
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…
New Material Allows for Ultra-Thin Solar Cells
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,…
New Nanoengineering Approach Boosts Carrier Multiplication in Quantum Dots
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…
New Solar Cell Technology Converts Solar Energy More Efficiently
Scientists have developed a new, inexpensive material that has the potential convert solar energy more efficiently than ever before. Argonne, Illinois — Getting the blues…
Researchers Discover a Simple Way to Increase Solar Cell Efficiency
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…
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 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…