Solar power is already the cheapest way to generate large amounts of clean electricity, yet conventional panels still waste a ...

A new model shows how transport resistance limits solar cell efficiency and how better fill factor predictions could help us develop more powerful photovoltaics One light bulb turned on (Courtesy: ...

Solar power has long been constrained by a supposedly unbreakable ceiling on how much sunlight a panel can turn into ...

An innovative hybrid solar device that combines a PV panel and energy storage has achieved record levels of energy storage efficiency for such a device. And unlike conventional batteries, the ...

The research group led by Professor Martin Green has not published yet Version 67 of the solar cell efficiency tables, due to production delays. Green, however, has accepted to comment on some of the ...

A research team has discovered a unique quantum state at the interface between organic materials and two-dimensional ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...

The tandem device is based on a bottom organic cell that can achieve a remarkable power conversion efficiency of 17.9% and a high short-circuit current density of 28.60 mA cm2. Furthermore, it uses a ...

The molecular structure of GTA, the normalized PCE curves of GTA-based IS-PSCs under various stretch and stretch-release cycles. Recently, a research team led by Professor Zhi-Guo Zhang from Beijing ...

CAPEX investment for setting up the PERC production is higher in the case of a MLD setup. Image: Fraunhofer ISE A solar cell manufacturing plant can reduce water consumption by up to 79% with existing ...