A set of peer-reviewed studies and federally funded research projects have shown that solar cells can double as curved mirrors, generating electricity and high-temperature heat from a single piece of ...

A novel thin-film technology enables solar panels to generate electricity from both sunlight and raindrops.

Research at RIT on perovskite solar cells led to a successful mission where a cell was flown on a SpaceX rocket with no ...

For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came ...

Researchers from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) have developed a new procedure for the precise and traceable spectral adjustment of LED-based solar simulators ...

The international research group led by Professor Martin Green from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia has published Version 65 of the “solar cell efficiency tables” in Progress in ...

Perovskite solar cells are among the most promising technologies for making solar power cheaper and more efficient. Working with partners from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), DESY ...

The team at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) developed a technology to precisely control the internal structure of a surface passivation layer in perovskite solar cells, ...

Solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electricity, are among the most promising solutions to source energy ...

The research advanced the durability of perovskite solar cells without compromising their exceptional efficiency, moving closer to a practical, low-cost alternative to silicon-based photovoltaics.

A UNSW-led team found that annealing conditions significantly affect stress, strain, and microstructure in copper-plated ...