A set of peer-reviewed studies and federally funded research projects have shown that solar cells can double as curved mirrors, generating electricity and high-temperature heat from a single piece of ...

For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came ...

A new bifacial solar cell architecture developed by researchers at Soochow University, Zhejiang Jinko ...

Rice University scientists and collaborators have created a new type of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor that comes closer ...

Approach by EPFL and CSEM combines two thin-film perovskite cells and one silicon cell.

The ASTM G173 Standard Spectral Distribution of Sunlight represents a standard, reference solar spectrum that is used for solar photovoltaics testing and calibration purposes. It was defined in the ...

Solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electricity, are among the most promising solutions to source energy ...

New research from Germany has shown how improving top-cell transparency and performance remains key to the commercialization of tandem perovskite-silicon solar cells, as well as for all other types of ...

The 1cm² cells, pictured, achieved a record-breaking 27.06% power conversion efficiency. Image: University of Sydney. Scientists from the University of Sydney have created what they claim is the ...