Solar cells face significant challenges when deployed in outer space, where extremes in the environment decrease the efficiency and longevity they enjoy back on Earth. University of Toledo physicists ...

Engineers have developed a way to monitor solar cells at a microscopic level while they are operating – to discover exactly ...

Researchers in Australia have developed a new laser-based technique that allows them to observe ...

Professor Yoke Khin Yap and his research group are improving the efficiency of solar cells one quantum dot at a time. × To sustainably power our digital future, the world needs more — and more ...

UNSW engineers have made a major step forward in the development of a new type of solar cell that could help make future ...

A new model shows how transport resistance limits solar cell efficiency and how better fill factor predictions could help us develop more powerful photovoltaics One light bulb turned on (Courtesy: ...

An innovative hybrid solar device that combines a PV panel and energy storage has achieved record levels of energy storage efficiency for such a device. And unlike conventional batteries, the ...

In a study published in Nature, researchers at Linköping University have developed a method to recycle all parts of a solar cell repeatedly without environmentally hazardous solvents. The recycled ...

Large-scale production of organic solar cells with high efficiency and minimal environmental impact. In the study, the researchers studied molecule shape and interaction in organic solar cells.

A reflection-based solar cell design inspired by periscopes achieves near-complete visible transparency and record light ...

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have demonstrated the non-destructive, room-temperature deposition of amorphous indium zinc oxide (a-IZO) transparent electrodes (TEs) for ...