Energy can never be created or destroyed. That's basic Physics 101. You simply cannot create energy out of thin air. Yet researchers at Kyushu University in Japan say they have developed a technology ...

A research team from Fudan University has explored a novel optimization method for the transport layer in solar cells, challenging the conventional view that high extraction barriers lead to low power ...

A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunlight through singlet fission. The result ...

Halide perovskites have rapidly emerged as a leading class of photovoltaic absorbers owing to their exceptional light-harvesting capabilities, tunable band gaps and carrier lifetimes that rival ...

Nanotechnology enables the use of materials with unique optical, electrical, and thermal properties. These materials can be engineered to absorb sunlight more efficiently, reduce energy loss, and ...

Using this strategy, they produced TiO2-NA films with constant rod diameter and height, even as the number of rods per area varied. When incorporated into low-temperature-processed CuInS2 solar cells, ...

The sight of solar panels installed on rooftops and large energy farms has become commonplace in many regions around the world. Even in grey and rainy UK, solar power is becoming a major player in ...

Scientists at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST) have set a new efficiency record for copper gallium selenide (CuGaSe₂) solar cells, achieving a power ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The sight of solar panels installed on rooftops and large energy farms has become commonplace in many regions around ...

Imagine a display that harvests ambient light when it is not actively in use, offsetting some of its own energy consumption. The materials physics shows that this is possible, the same semiconductor ...

Using the mask-and-plate copper metallization technique, scientists at the German research center fabricated a 1.21 cm² perovskite–silicon tandem solar cell featuring a heterojunction bottom device.