The company can produce solar cells for about 40 cents per watt Twin Creeks Technologies—a startup that has been operating in secret until today—has developed a way to make thin wafers of cr... Read more
“Our cell can produce as much as twice as much power than conventional solar cells.” Solar3D, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough 3-dimensional solar cell technology to... Read more
It is cheap to make and can be produced in large quantities A team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana is reporting the creation of a “solar paint”... Read more
A new twist on an old solar cell design sends light ricocheting through layers of microscopic spheres, increasing its electricity-generating potential by 26 percent. By engineering alternati... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A study in the journal Nature Materials details the creation of a nanowire-based technology that absorbs solar energy at comparable levels to currently available systems... 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
Research has already shown that at the nanoscale, chemistry is different and the same is apparently true for light, which Engineers at Stanford University say behaves differently at scales o... Read more
If someone asks you to describe a solar power plant you’d likely look to convey an image of row upon row of sun-soaking panels pointing skyward. It’s doubtful that the first thou... Read more
Enough sunlight bathes Earth’s daytime half in an hour to meet all human energy needs for a year. Sadly, there are several problems with meeting human energy demands by tapping such ab... Read more