Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developed a new perovskite ink with a long processing window that allows the scalable pr... Read more
A U of T Engineering innovation could make printing cells as easy and inexpensive as printing a newspaper. Dr. Hairen Tan and his team have cleared a critical manufacturing hurdle in the dev... Read more
A breakthrough in solar power could make it cheaper and more commercially viable, thanks to research at the University of Warwick. Solar cells can be made with tin instead of lead, Warwick s... Read more
A simplified architecture leads to efficiencies rivaling conventional silicon solar cells. The Science A new architecture takes very few processing steps to produce an affordable solar cel... Read more
Ultrathin, flexible photovoltaic cells from MIT research could find many new uses Imagine solar cells so thin, flexible, and lightweight that they could be placed on almost any material or s... Read more
Researchers in Japan succeeded in producing highly reproducible and highly stable perovskite solar cells by a low-temperature solution process. The results were published the Journal of Mate... Read more
Researchers from the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have developed a manufacturing technique that could double the electricity output of... Read more
Pretty soon, powering your tablet could be as simple as wrapping it in cling wrap. That’s Illan Kramer’s (ECE) hope. Kramer and colleagues have just invented a new way to spray solar cells o... Read more
“One should consider that the production cost of this type of solar cell is several orders of magnitude lower than for conventional solar cells.” The sharp X-ray vision of DESY... Read more