Researchers develop new design rule for generating excitons will help advance next-generation devices Researchers at Columbia University have developed a way to harness more power from singl... Read more
Designers of solar cells may soon be setting their sights higher, as a discovery by a team of researchers has revealed a class of materials that could be better at converting sunlight into e... Read more
Perovskite materials can recycle light particles — a finding which could lead to a new generation of affordable, high-performance solar cells Scientists have discovered that a highly p... Read more
They’re one step closer. In a new paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Kenneth Hanson and his team have introduced a new stra... Read more
Solar cells capture up to 40 percent more energy when they can track the sun across the sky, but conventional, motorized trackers are too heavy and bulky for pitched rooftops and vehicle sur... Read more
Solar Cell from Berkeley Lab/University of Illinois Absorbs High-Energy Light at 30-fold Higher Concentration than Conventional Cells By combining designer quantum dot light-emitters with sp... Read more
The humble butterfly could hold the key to unlocking new techniques to make solar energy cheaper and more efficient, pioneering new research has shown. A team of experts from the University... Read more
UC Riverside researchers find a way to use the infrared region of the sun’s spectrum to make solar cells more efficient When it comes to installing solar cells, labor cost and the cost... Read more
Black silicon solar cells are now real contenders There’s been plenty of good news about solar power lately – not only are governments around the world using it more and more, we... Read more
UNSW‘s solar researchers have converted over 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, the highest efficiency ever reported. The world-beating efficiency was achieve... Read more