New roll-to-roll production method could enable lightweight, flexible solar devices and a new generation of display screens. A new way of making large sheets of…
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Researchers developed a technique that uses a scanning tunneling microscope integrated with lasers and other optical components to trap appropriate molecules and measure the energy…
This graphical abstract summarizes how this work performs a comprehensive techno-economic analysis worldwide for photovoltaic systems using a combination of bifacial modules and single- and…
Professor Anita Ho-Baillie with an earlier prototype perovskite solar cell. Credit: UNSW Perovskite crystals could underpin cheap renewable energy. Australian scientists have for the first…
A focused laser is used to create thin films of tin dioxide. Credit: © 2020 Nakao et al. A clear semiconductor based on tin could…
Professor Jongmin Choi, Department of Energy Science & Engineering, DGIST. Credit: DGIST Successful development of photovoltaic commercialization technology with improved quantum dot efficiency. The cause…
Flexible, ultra-thin solar cell to deliver the best power to mass ratio for space missions. Credit: ESA–SJM Photography The European Space Agency (ESA) has backed…
Stock photo depicting a flexible solar cell. Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research and RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science have succeeded, in…
Material, synthesised by Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania scientists self-assemble to form a molecular-thick electrode layer. Credit: KTU Material, synthesized by Kaunas University of…
Left to right: Postdoctoral fellows Erkan Aydin (KAUST), Yi Hou (University of Toronto) and Michele De Bastiani (KAUST) are part of an international team that…
The new electron-accepting molecule TACIC can maintain its excited state 50 times longer than a conventional one. Credit: Illustration by Mindy Takamiya Molecular changes could…
Two laboratory solar cell samples, one (right) with a protective lead-absorbing film applied to the backside. Credit: Northern Illinois University Researchers at Northern Illinois University…
A University of Queensland team has developed quantum dot solar cells that can be made into thin, flexible films and used to generate electricity even…
Materials that can slow the cooling of highly energetic hot carriers could capture extra energy from the Sun. Two-dimensional solar materials may offer a way…
Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) achieved a technological breakthrough for solar cells previously thought impossible. The scientists successfully integrated an aluminum source…
Combining silicon with a highly elastic polymer backing produces solar cells that have record-breaking stretchability and high efficiency. Credit: © 2019 KAUST; Heno Hwang Combining…
Researchers used femtosecond lasers to analyze a perovskite solar cell. Credit: NTU Singapore Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) in a collaboration with…
Freestanding Microwire-Array Enables Flexible Solar Windows TSCs are emerging devices that combine the advantages of visible transparency and light-to-electricity conversion. One of the valuable prospective…
Engineers have characterized the thermal energy conversion mechanism in the lattice of an advanced nanomaterial called chalcogenide perovskite and demonstrated its ‘tunability’ — important for…
Visualisation of how the charge carriers (in purple) accumulate in the disordered perovskite structures. Credit: Ella Maru Studio Discovery means simpler and cheaper manufacturing methods…