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

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 ...

Hemispherical solar cells could significantly improve sunlight absorption Enhancing light absorption with photovoltaic tech thanks to 3D finite element analysis By Alfonso Maruccia February 21 ...

A new study, published in Nature Nanotechnology and featured on the journal's front cover this month, has uncovered insights ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...