“We have developed a material that absorbs infrared and is all transparent to the visible light.” One of the holy grails of solar cell technology may have been found, with researchers at UCL... Read more
It can produce 200 percent of the power output of conventional solar cells Home owners looking to embrace solar but concerned about the effect slabs of solar panels will have on the look of... Read more
A solar conversion efficiency ratio of 13.1 percent A team of Taiwanese and Swiss chemists has developed new dye components that it said can potentially enhance the efficiency of sola... Read more
The creation of a 3-D nanocone-based solar cell platform has allowed a team of scientists to boost the light-to-power conversion efficiency of photovoltaics by nearly 80 percent. The team le... Read more
Imagine if all the windows of a building, and perhaps even all its exterior walls, could be put to use as solar collectors. Soon, you may not have to imagine it, as the Norweigan solar power... Read more
Photovoltaic solar cells convert light energy from the sun into electricity. Although significant strides have been made in increasing the efficiency of photovoltaic technology, they usually... Read more
Image via Wikipedia When scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) tried to apply their expertise in solar cell technology to build a green LED light from the ground up,... Read more