India’s buying of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells from China went up by 141%. This big rise is likely because India is now ...

There are fundamentally two ways to generate electricity. The first is based on electromagnetic induction, which remains the ...

Organic–inorganic lead trihalide perovskites under pressure exhibit an unprecedented simultaneous occurrence of band-gap narrowing and carrier-lifetime prolongation, both of which are exceptionally ...

In this paper, six metastable allotropes of silicon with direct or quasidirect band gaps of 0.39-1.25 eV are predicted by ab initio calculations at ambient pressure. Five of them possess band gaps ...

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For example, using wide-gap CdSe NCs we demonstrate a photoresponse which is exclusively due to the NCs. On the other hand, in devices comprising narrow-gap PbS NCs, both the NCs and silicon ...

The emergence of electrical conversion technologies utilizing silicon carbide and gallium nitride switches and diodes will enable the development of a whole new class of efficient, lightweight, and ...

NINGBO, China, March 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As the photovoltaic industry accelerates into the n-type era, Heterojunction (HJT) technology is reshaping the landscape with its empirical performance.

It is estimated that unabsorbed near-infrared (NIR) light energy accounts for about 20% of the total solar energy, contributing to the large gap between the current photovoltaic efficiency of SSCs ...

Narrow band gap perovskites have achieved device efficiencies of up to 26.1% 1. Additionally, wide band gap (WBG) perovskites are showing significant progress in the development of tandem perovskite ...

Find out how solar cells power a good portion of homes today—and how they might power almost everything in the future.

Optoelectronic materials facilitate light and electricity interactions, essential for advancements in photovoltaics, OLED displays, and quantum technologies.