Scientists have recently scrutinized organic solar cells and derived design rules for light-absorbing dyes that can help to make these cells more efficient, while tailoring the absorption spectrum ...

Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now succeeded in transferring these nanostructures to solar cells and, thus, enhancing their light absorption rate by up to 200 percent.

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have successfully developed a perovskite-organic tandem solar cell that ...

These high-efficiency materials are tuned so that their band gap matches the solar spectrum. Light absorption followed by re-emission at longer wavelengths will create a mismatch between the light ...

As the global demand for clean and sustainable energy continues to surge, the photovoltaic sector remains at the forefront of ...

Researchers in Canada have conducted a series of simulations to understand how spectrum splitters may raise the efficiency of two-terminal tandem solar cells and have found that efficiency gains ...

Nov 02, 2011: Solar power could get boost from new light absorption design (Nanowerk News) Solar power may be on the rise, but solar cells are only as efficient as the amount of sunlight they ...

Chinese scientists have built a selenium solar cell with an alloyed selenium-tellurium absorber, which reportedly reduces interfacial defects. Under standard illumination conditions, the device ...

A team of researchers from George Washington University has devised a new layered solar panel that can absorb light from a wider range of the spectrum pushing the efficiency as high as 44.5 percent.

This feature is claimed to make graphene an ideal building block for any device that relies on converting light into electricity. In particular, it enables efficient light detectors and potentially ...