For this new result they have optimized their high-efficiency silicon heterojunction bottom cell and developed an optica…

With stability still being an issue, researchers involved in the new SolarWAVE project are pursuing a breakthrough to de…

Imec, within the collaboration of EnergyVille, and Jolywood realize bifacial n-PERT cells with average 21.9 percent front-side efficiency

Imec also fabricated screen-printed monofacial nPERT cells with efficiencies up to 22.8 percent, which is a state-of-the…

Harbor Plus™ Smart Battery packs power and energy capacity for whole-home back-up and smart energy management

The solar-ready Harbor Plus Smart Battery is powered by six Panasonic Lithium-Ion battery modules connected in series fo…

Using these materials to convert sunlight into electricity, to make solar cells, is far more complex. The photo-excited…

The solar cells in the study are based on metal halide perovskites – a promising group of ionic semiconductor materials…

A technology in development that uses electric fields to sweep dust from solar panels has promise as a new self-cleaning…

The Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, l…

First, they designed a system that combines specialized layers to absorb both visible and infrared light. Essentially th…

The Warwick researchers looked at the physical constraints on the current design of most commercial solar cells which pl…

The Fraunhofer researchers achieved the high conversion efficiency of the silicon-based multi-junction solar cell with e…

A further step has been taken along the road to manufacturing solar cells from lead-free perovskites. High quality films…

The product tested was a P-type monocrystalline PERC module. Based on efficient PERC cell technologies and innovative de…

These semiconductors can be used as an optical absorber material in solar cells, but so far have only achieved a maximum…

Based on Gautham Ram Chandra Mouli's doctoral research, TU Delft has developed a quick charger together with the compani…

Controlling nano surface roughness of porous silicon

A research team from Tokyo Tech and Waseda University have successfully produced high-quality thin film monocrystalline…

What ICN2 researchers propose in this work is a compact self-powered transistor that incorporates the energy source and…

This is essentially a new experimental system in which protons, electrons and photons are all packed together in an atom…

The invention could lead to power-producing smart windows for buildings, cars and display screens, according to the

The team made semi-transparent perovskite films that had bandgap — a measure of the energy level of photons the material…