Tag: solar cell

Researchers have developed transparent solar panels that can be used as glass windows in our homes or even in our ...

For the smart buildings of the future.

There's a huge untapped potential for solar energy across America's shining skyscrapers.

We're getting closer to the ideal silicon solar cell.

Another confirmation that solar energy is moving fast.

Fossil fuels could soon be a thing of the past.

On the desk of Seokheun "Sean" Choi sits a 3x3 array that at first glance looks like a lemon squeezer. ...

Despite solar cells made with perovskite recently crossed the 20 percent efficiency mark, researchers say there's still room to improve ...

There's an inherent flaw in solar cells: the metal wiring that's quintessential to harnessing the electrons reflects the incoming light, ...

University of Michigan researchers have devised what looks like the world's first fully transparent solar cell. Think of all of ...

The most efficient solar cells are those that convert incoming concentrated solar power via lenses, the sort you see on ...

Solar cell technology has improved dramatically over the past couple of year, yet it will be a long time before ...

Apart from both being shiny, it's hard to see any connection between a Blu-ray disk and a solar panel. Northwestern ...

One single lead-iron battery could be used to build enough solar panels to power 30 homes. Image: MIT Lead-acid car ...

Researchers at University of Sheffield demonstrate a perovskite spray-on solar cell for the first time. Also, this is the first ...

Austrlian researchers have successfully developed transparent, ultra-thin, foldable solar cells.

While scientists have been studying and incrementally increasing solar cell efficiency, we've yet to reach nature's magnitude of solar energy ...

NREL Senior Scientist Kai Zhu prepares a perovskite solar cell in his lab. Photo: NREL A crystal known to science ...

A typical multi junction solar cell. Photo: treehugger.ocm Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report they've devised a ...

Troy Van Voorhis, professor of chemistry (left), and Marc Baldo, professor of electrical engineering (right). Photo: MIT The most basic ...

NTU's new Perovskite solar cell can also emit light when electrical current is passed through the material. Photo: Nanyang Technological ...

Every time a new manufacturing or development technology concerning solar cells was introduced, the futurists and tech pundits were quick ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin jointly announced today having achieved ...

For some years now, scientists have been exploring the use of quantum dots as the basis for a novel type ...

One of the biggest hurdles the solar energy industry currently faces is efficiently transforming the incoming energy from the sun's ...

We've never shun away from praising the almost miraculous properties of graphene, the wonder material set to become even more ...

While we all have to recognize the huge potential that solar energy brings us, we also have to say that ...

The new architecture, depicted in the picture below can exceed a 40 percent conversion efficiency, and even when irradiated from ...

Scientists at Stanford University have successfully devised the world's first solar cell made entirely out of carbon. This alternative to ...

In a fantastic breakthrough in solar energy, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have ...

One of the cutting edge technologies currently used today in manufacturing allows for printing materials directly onto a surface to ...

Trees employ a fractal structure of branches to twigs to spread a wide array of leaves for maximized sunlight collection. ...

Researchers have successfully managed to create a "solar paint" made out of quantum dots, which exhibits similar properties to multifilm solar ...