Crystalline silicon solar cells currently dominate the global photovoltaic industry, with tunnel oxide passivating contact ...

A research team has produced a flexible perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell that converts 33.6% of sunlight into electricity ...

Scientists have developed a more heat-resistant material that keeps next-generation solar cells running more efficiently to enable durable, high-output solar panels. (Nanowerk News) Solar panels made ...

An international research team has fabricated a 1 cm2 perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell that utilizes a top cell based on a perovskite absorber integrating inorganic copper(I) thiocyanate (CuSCN). ...

A scanning electron microscope image of the perovskite silicon solar cell. Image: Fraunhofer ISE. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have developed a perovskite ...

As the price of silicon panels has continued to come down, we’ve reached the point where they’re a small and shrinking cost of building a solar farm. That means that it might be worth spending more to ...

Solar power is already cheap and effective, and it’s taking on a larger role in supplying energy needs all over the world. The thing about humanity, though, is that we always want more! Too much, you ...

It is not easy to bring new technologies from the laboratory to market. Researchers and companies face very different demands ...

A newly developed metasurface-based silicon antireflective coating combines rectangular and cylindrical meta-atom geometries. The metasurface achieves just 5 percent reflection, compared to ~50 ...

Hydrogen can be either beneficial to silicon solar technologies, passivating bulk and surface defects, or detrimental, contributing to light- and elevated-temperature-induced degradation (LeTID) and ...

Dr Zhang Boxue (left), Assistant Professor Park Somin (middle) and Assistant Professor Wei Mingyang (right) from the National University of Singapore developed a more heat-resistant material to ...