Researchers use engineered viruses to provide quantum-based enhancement of energy transport Nature has had billions of years to perfect photosynthesis, which directly or indirectly supports... Read more
Small Device Works With Air, Pure Oxygen Not Needed An artificial lung built by Cleveland researchers has reached efficiencies akin to the genuine organ, using air — not pure oxygen as... Read more
Electric vehicles have been a reality for more than 100 years, but it’s only in the last decade or so that the world has truly woken up to their potential as a viable, cleaner urban tr... Read more
A switching trick makes it possible to cut the losses of a series-production inverter in half and increase the efficiency from 96 to 98 percent. The HERIC®-topology makes it possible to achi... Read more
Swiss researchers have claimed a new world record efficiency of 18.7% for flexible copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) solar cells on plastics. Flexible CIGS solar cells have the poten... Read more
The creation of a 3-D nanocone-based solar cell platform has allowed a team of scientists to boost the light-to-power conversion efficiency of photovoltaics by nearly 80 percent. The team le... Read more
A tiny radio chip is arousing fear – but also great enthusiasm. Is it a threat to everything that we know as personal data protection, or the optimal way of keeping track in a chaos of produ... Read more
Solar cells could become more efficient and less expensive, thanks to the development of tapered nanopillar semiconductors that are narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. Created by chemi... Read more
In two just-released studies, scientists have announced new ways of making solar cells less expensive and more efficient. In one of the projects, researchers from the University of Toronto d... Read more
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/) researchers want to develop solar cells with an efficiency of over 65 percent by means of nanotechnology. In Southern Europe and North Africa these n... Read more