Working with start-up PrimeStar Solar, General Electric is developing solar modules that use low-cost, cadmium telluride thin-film solar cells. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Silicon wafers are the heart of solar cells. However, manufacturing them is not cheap. Over 50 percent of the pure silicon used is machined into dust. A new manufacturing technique puts an end to ...

GE's plans to build a massive thin-film solar factory in Colorado designed to catapult the company to the top of the industry have been quashed by market conditions.

Engineers have found that photovoltaic wafers in solar panels with all-perovskite structures outperform photovoltaic cells made from state-of-the-art crystalline silicon, as well as perovskite ...

LONDON — Research institute IMEC vzw has said it is developing a method to produce 50 micron thick crystalline silicon wafers for use in solar cells. The process involves mechanically initiating and ...

BEIJING, Oct. 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- JA Solar has reached agreement with Shin-Etsu Chemical of Japan to license its intellectual properties of using Ga-doped silicon wafers for solar cell ...

Silicon solar cells are the backbone of the world’s solar-generated electricity, accounting for about 95 per cent of the solar cells in the photovoltaic market.

A team of scientists at the National University of Singapore have developed a new kind of solar cell that uses the contrast of both light and shade to generate electricity. It works by placing a ...