Solar Cell from Berkeley Lab/University of Illinois Absorbs High-Energy Light at 30-fold Higher Concentration than Conventional Cells By combining designer quantum dot light-emitters with sp... Read more
VTT Technical Centre of Finland has developed and utilized a mass production method based on printing technologies allowing the manufacturing of decorative, organic solar panels Design freed... Read more
UMass Amherst scientists use graphene in new energy conversion architecture Using a bio-mimicking analog of one of nature’s most efficient light-harvesting structures, blades of grass, an in... Read more
“I think it’s going to be very important to a lot of different scientific communities.” In Science, UMass Amherst researchers tell how they broke the ‘electrode barrier’ For decades, p... Read more
‘Perovskite cells now have efficiencies of up to 19 per cent. This is not so far behind that of silicon at 25 per cent – the material that dominates the worldwide solar market.’ Scient... Read more
In a departure from ‘blue sky thinking’ scientists in Britain have developed solar panels that work better on a cloudy day. Their material is as thin and flexible as cloth, and c... Read more
Researchers have been able to tune ‘coherence’ in organic nanostructures due to the surprise discovery of wavelike electrons in organic materials, revealing the key to generating “long-lived... Read more
High power conversion of new solar cells that are thin, flexible, and transparent makes them ideal for a wealth of new applications Imagine buildings in which the windows allow the sun... Read more
Latest research paves way for inexpensive, high performance cells Organic solar cells, a new class of solar cell that mimics the natural process of plant photosynthesis, could revolutionise... Read more
Most Americans want the U.S. to place more emphasis on developing solar power, recent polls suggest. A major impediment, however, is the cost to manufacture, install and maintain solar panel... Read more
MIT researchers develop an organic solar cell that breaks 100 percent quantum efficiency Solar cells are picky. If an incoming photon has too little energy, the cell won’t absorb it. If a ph... Read more
The solar cells can be quickly recycled in water at the end of their lifecycle Solar cells are just like leaves, capturing the sunlight and turning it into energy. It’s fitting that t... Read more
The resulting design exhibited a three-fold increase over the Yablonovitch Limit The sun’s energy is virtually limitless, but harnessing its electricity with today’s single-crystal silicon s... Read more
Better and cheaper organic solar cells An insight into the properties of fullerene is set to open the door to a new class of electronic acceptors which can be used to build better and cheape... Read more
MIT engineers propose a new way of harnessing photons for electricity, with the potential for capturing a wider spectrum of solar energy. The quest to harness a broader spectrum of sunlight’... Read more