Chinese company Infinix demonstrated several peculiar concept devices at MWC 2025. One of them caught my attention: a smartphone with built-in solar cells. They cover most of the device's back and ...

Plastic cells cost only a fraction of the more common silicon cells used in solar-powered products, such as calculators. But plastic cells typically are fragile and last only for a few days.

A group of researchers led by China's Soochow University has fabricated a monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell with an interface design based on steric complementarity, aiming to improve ...

I mage of the Beta.ey S phone charger via IndieGoGo. German designer Andre Broessel has invented a means ofharnessing the sun’s energy in a solar cell. Through the startup RawLemon, Broessel wants to ...

A new study published in Science led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill, with collaborators from the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), explains why perovskite solar cells—fast-rising ...