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Solar tower power plants - sunlight becomes electricity on demand
Jan 23, 2023 (SPX)
In solar thermal power plants, movable mirrors, referred to as heliostats, concentrate the sunlight onto a solar tower. The mirrors track the course of the Sun....
Polymer p-doping improves perovskite solar cell stability
Jan 20, 2023 (SPX)
However, stability issues have hindered the commercialization and widespread use of PSCs, and achieving operational stability has become a rallying cry among sc...
Western climate subsidies risk hitting emerging markets: IMF
Jan 20, 2023 (AFP)
The United States under President Joe Biden has passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) which contains sweeping subsidies and tax cuts worth around $370 billio...
Harnessing solar energy: new method improves readings of double-sided panels
Jan 19, 2023 (SPX)
Published in the journal Joule, this study from the SUNLAB team in the Faculties of Engineering and Science proposes a characterization method that will improve...
Non-fused ring electron acceptors based organic solar cells
Jan 18, 2023 (SPX)
Even though it is a challenge for OSCs to reconcile with the necessity for low-cost advantage compared with silicon or perovskite solar cells, there are lots of...
Improving perovskite solar cell resistance to degradation
Jan 13, 2023 (SPX)
Now, scientists at EPFL and Sungkyunkwan University in Korea have found a way to improve the stability of PSCs. The researchers focused on the degradation of pe...
ABC Solar comments on impact of NEM 3.0 on solar industry in California
Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)
"The first piece of mentor advice I got for ABC Solar 22 years ago was that the government will turn on and off the incentive programs to get rid of 'you'," say...
France pushes forward with plan to speed up renewables
Jan 10, 2023 (AFP)
Having secured rare support from the left, President Emmanuel Macron's minority administration is now a step closer to lowering hurdles to building new solar an...
A step towards solar fuels out of thin air
Jan 05, 2023 (SPX)
They have developed an ingenious yet simple system that combines semiconductor-based technology with novel electrodes that have two key characteristics: they ar...
Interfacial engineering for improved stability of flexible perovskite solar cells
Jan 04, 2023 (SPX)
"(a) Stress would accumulate with temperature changes because of mismatched lattice and thermal expansion coefficients. It brought about delamination, or accele...
New solar cell material could be used in space
Jan 03, 2023 (SPX)
The European Research Council (ERC) has approved a five-year study which will delve into the atomic-level structure of a new type of solar cell material. This w...
Improving the operational stability of perovskite solar cells
Dec 29, 2022 (SPX)
One of the obstacles on the way to commercializing perovskite solar cells is their operational stability, which puts them at a disadvantage compared to photovol...
As energy crisis bites, Spaniards snap up solar panels
Dec 23, 2022 (AFP)
"Here we have sun almost all year round," said Paloma Utrera showing off the black panels installed on her roof in Pozuelo de Alarcon, a well-heeled suburb of w...
Decoding the secret language of photosynthesis
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
For half a century botanists have known that the command center of a plant cell, the nucleus, sends instructions to other parts of the cell, compelling them to ...
Ammonium is the secret ingredient in stable, efficient and scalable perovskite solar cells
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
Members of Exciton Science, based at Monash University, were able to create perovskite solar cells with 21% efficiency, the best results ever recorded for a dev...
Single component white LED based on lanthanide ions doped lead halide perovskite
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
White light perovskite LEDs are possible to be obtained by stacking different NCs with complementary emissions together in one film. However, the halide ion seg...
Constrained future brightening of solar radiation in China and its implication for the solar power
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
However, future projections of Rs based on climate models contain large uncertainties due to internal climate variability, model uncertainty, and scenario uncer...
CityU scientists discover a novel photophysical mechanism that has achieved record-breaking efficiency for organic photovoltaics
Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)
The best-performing OPVs developed by the CityU team have achieved PCE of over 19%, and the team expects to exceed 20% very soon. The discovery is promising for...
Tandem solar cell achieves 32.5 percent efficiency
Dec 20, 2022 (SPX)
His team used an advanced perovskite composition with a very smart interface modification. The lead authors, postdocs Dr. Silvia Mariotti, and Dr. Eike Kohnen i...
Photo-processing brightens the future of perovskites
Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)
As human civilization goes through the information revolution, everything seems to be speeding up, and the desire of researchers to explore next-generation semi...
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