Solar energy plays a big role in the fight against climate change. As the world turns to solar power, concerns about the ...

A U.S.-based collaboration between the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and CubicPV has yielded a perovskite minimodule with certified efficiency of 24.0%. The two noted that it is the ...

A collaborative effort between NREL and CubicPV has yielded a perovskite minimodule that has achieved 24.0% certified ...

Triple junction solar cells based on InGaP/GaAs/Ge are the baseline for the space application. This paper reports the achievement in terms of development, characterization and in-flight experience for ...

The hot carrier solar is a novel photovoltaic concept for exceeding the conventional single band gap limit by reducing thermalization losses. Whilst there are reports of having observed hot carrier ...

Abruptly ending tax incentives that encourage solar developers to buy American could upend a booming manufacturing sector.

To sustainably power our digital future, the world needs more — and more efficient — sources of renewable energy. Michigan Tech researchers are pioneering one such breakthrough in solar energy: highly ...

The cooling technology has registered a higher power output of a solar cell by 12.9%. Image: Markus Spiske via Unsplash. International researchers led by a team from the King Abdullah University ...

A new study, published in Nature Nanotechnology and featured on the journal's front cover this month, has uncovered insights into the tiny structures that could take solar energy to the next level.

Scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated a perovskite–organic tandem solar cell with a certified world-record power conversion efficiency of 26.4% over a 1 cm2 active ...

Solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electrical energy, are becoming increasingly widespread, with many households and industries worldwide now relying on them as a source of ...