Harvard physicists propose a device to capture energy from Earth’s infrared emissions to outer space

Physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences envision a device that would harvest energy from Ea…

The superabsorbing design could decrease the thickness of the semiconductor materials used in thin film solar cells by m…

Paving the way for the production of high-performance solar cells

Heterojunction silicon technology consists of ultra-thin layers of amorphous silicon in the nanometer range that have be…

All Three Units of 392 megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System Now Delivering Solar Power to California’s Electric Grid

At full capacity, the facility’s trio of 450-foot high towers produces a gross total of 392 megawatts (MW) of solar powe…

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found an easy way to modify th…

Research teams at the HZB and at the University of Limerick, Ireland, have discovered a novel solid state reaction which…

Perovskite based solar cells are a hot topic in energy research and Science Magazine has put it on the list of Breakthro…

New approach developed at MIT could generate power from sunlight efficiently and on demand.

A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to h…

Ford Motor Company, in collaboration with Georgia Tech, debuted a new solar car concept earlier this month at the 2014 International CES in Las Vegas.

The C-MAX Solar Energy Concept is a first-of-its-kind hybrid electric vehicle with the potential to free drivers of thei…

Researchers have shown how to increase the efficiency of thin-film solar cells, a technology that could bring low-cost s…

A single layer takes on the job of what used to be two layers, doing away with the wet chemical process. Despite a much…

Researchers have been able to tune coherence in organic nanostructures due to the surprise discovery of wavelike electro…

X-ray examination shows structural changes in "plastics" solar cells

Organic solar cells, especially those based on polymers are inexpensive to produce on a large scale. Thanks to their phy…

Solar electricity will reach cost parity in 10 major regions, accelerating adoption without subsidies, and will even benefit from abundant natural gas, Lux Research says

Far from being bulldozed by cheap natural gas, unsubsidized utility-scale solar electricity will become cost-competitive…

A new discovery, by researchers at the University of St Andrews on why plastic solar cells work so well, could lead to b…

Stanford researchers have developed an inexpensive device that uses light to split water into oxygen and clean-burning hydrogen. The goal is to supplement solar cells with hydrogen-powered fuel cells that can generate electricity when the sun isn't shining or demand is high.

Stanford researchers have developed an inexpensive device that uses light to split water into oxygen and clean-burning h…

Researchers from the NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology have demonstrated a new low energy electron beam…

Converting sunshine into electricity is not difficult, but doing so efficiently and on a large scale is one of the reaso…

Researchers are developing next-generation solar cells using chromophores or, in lay terms, dyes.

Important Step Towards Reducing Cost-of-Ownership of PERC Technology

The new laser doping processing sequence eliminates the necessity of a firing step to create the local BSF in i-PERC sol…