Silicon solar cells were supposed to be running out of headroom, yet a new device has pushed their performance to 27.81% efficiency and reset expectations for what a single-junction cell can do. That ...

Professor Yoke Khin Yap and his research group are improving the efficiency of solar cells one quantum dot at a time. × To sustainably power our digital future, the world needs more — and more ...

The race to build the world’s most efficient solar cell is no longer a theoretical contest inside physics labs, it is a ...

Perovskite solar cells can be made not only more robust but also more efficient, scalable and cheaper to manufacture by ...

Researchers have developed a perovskite-organic tandem solar cell that achieves 26.4 percent efficiency. Unlike rigid silicon modules, the lightweight design can generate power on curved or flexible ...

Perovskite solar cells are a promising alternative to traditional silicon solar panels but have poor durability. Professor Ted Sargent, Research associate professor Bin Chen, Postdoctoral fellows ...

Ubiquitous Energy and Michigan State University researchers have created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any window or sheet of glass (like your smartphone's screen) into a ...

A joint research team has successfully identified, for the first time, the specific types of defects responsible for efficiency loss in silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells.

Schott introduced Solar Glass exos, a new cover glass developed with AZUR Space for next-generation satellite solar cells with ESA and DLR support ...

The process made the surface more stable and improved the overall performance, resulting in a power conversion efficiency of 27.4 percent with better stability. Northwestern Engineering researchers ...