They have argued that such materials should be used to overcome the poor blue response of solar cells, while absorbing short-wavelength light, typically in the 300 nm to 500 nm range, and re-emit ...

Within a few years, people in remote villages in the developing world may be able to make their own solar panels, at low cost, using otherwise worthless agricultural waste as their raw material ...

This article provides an overview of the materials that are used to produce photovoltaic cells for the production of renewable energy, as well as new research that proposes the use of novel materials.

Polymer-based photovoltaic cells have some real advantages compared to the currently used semiconductor-based cells. They are easy to make and the materials are cheap.

In a key advance for next-gen solar energy, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a novel radical ...

PV cells have a variety of applications, from personal electronic devices (such as calculators, ... For example, thin-film solar cells use less materials than traditional solar cells.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Soft and flexible materials called halide perovskites could make solar cells more efficient at significantly less cost, but they’re too unstable to use. A Purdue University-led ...

According to the Dutch researchers, the choice of the semiconductor materials enabling the effective exploitation of CM in solar cells and their bandgap should be between 0.6–1.0 electronvolt ...

The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can be increased by a factor of 1,000 if three different materials are arranged periodically in a lattice. Researchers achieved this by creating ...

Solar energy is a popular candidate for a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. A solar cell, or photovoltaic (PV) cell, converts sunlight directly into electricity. However, the conversion ...

The materials and manufacturing techniques used to make PV systems are expensive. High production costs, then, have kept the technology from becoming widely implemented.