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Taking solar-powered lasers to new heights with four-mirror pumping
Sep 08, 2022 (SPX)
In a recent study published in the SPIE Journal of Photonics for Energy, researchers from Algeria and Portugal report a new solar-powered laser design that succ...
TrinaTracker adds 55 MW more to its project portfolio in Kenya
Sep 08, 2022 (SPX)
The project is owned by Alten Energias Renovables and built by Voltalia in partnership with TrinaTracker. The installation includes 103.936 ultra-high-power mod...
NREL-led breakthrough pushes perovskite cell to greater stability, efficiency
Sep 07, 2022 (SPX)
The work was done in collaboration with scientists from the University of Toledo, the University of Colorado-Boulder, and the University of California-San Diego...
Photosynthesis copycat may improve solar cells
Sep 07, 2022 (SPX)
"Energy transport is one of the crucial steps for solar energy harvesting and conversion in solar cells," said Bin Liu, a postdoctoral researcher in electrical ...
Major leap for stable high-efficiency perovskite solar cells
Sep 07, 2022 (SPX)
"Our results open new possibilities to develop efficient and stable solar cells. Further, they provide new insights into how the doping of organic semiconductor...
Frontier Research Center to advance molecular-level solar science
Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)
Erin Ratcliff, a University of Arizona associate professor of chemical and environmental engineering and chemistry and biochemistry, is leading one of the Depar...
The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors
Aug 30, 2022 (SPX)
For that endeavor, a research team led by Professor Zhan Xiaowei from the School of Materials Science and Engineering have conducted a series of studies on the ...
From the spare room to outer space: A DIY project that could transform solar power
Aug 29, 2022 (SPX)
Dr Jamie Laird, a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science and the University of Melbourne, has invented a new machine for testing the...
Nontoxic material found to be ultra-strong solar energy harvester
Aug 29, 2022 (SPX)
In a collaboration led by Imperial College London, alongside researchers from Cambridge, UCL, Oxford, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Germany, and others, researche...
A perfect trap for light
Aug 29, 2022 (SPX)
Now, research teams from TU Wien and from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found a surprising trick that allows a beam of light to be completely absorbed...
Colorful solar panels could make the technology more attractive
Aug 19, 2022 (SPX)
Solar panels are typically a deep black color because their job is to absorb light, whereas a red car looks red because the finish reflects red light instead of...
Building blocks of the future for photovoltaics
Aug 19, 2022 (SPX)
The researchers show how an experimental technique newly developed in Gottingen, femtosecond photoemission momentum microscopy, provides profound insights at a ...
Eco-friendly solar cells improve efficiency by resolving defects
Aug 15, 2022 (SPX)
"Solar cells," which generate electricity by converting light energy from the sun into electrical energy, are sustainable new renewable energy and can be easily...
Cheaper, changing and crucial: the rise of solar power
Aug 11, 2022 (AFP)
The International Energy Agency says solar will have to scale up significantly this decade to meet the Paris climate target of limiting temperature rises to 1.5...
Scientists fabricate high-performance large-area perovskite submodules for solar cells
Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)
Recently, a research group led by Prof. LIU Shengzhong from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has develop...
China scales up distributed PV units, expands rural use
Jul 28, 2022 (XNA)
The newly installed capacity of distributed solar power increased 125 percent year-on-year to about 19.65 million kilowatts in the first half, taking up about t...
Rocket Lab to supply solar power for US Space Force missile warning satellites
Jul 28, 2022 (SPX)
The NGG program will deliver resilient global missile warning capabilities to counter emerging missile and counter-space threats and is part of the latest evolu...
Desert sun, wind pack formidable punch
Jul 26, 2022 (XNA)
Technologies will power the next wave of wind and solar power development in China's desert areas amid higher requirements for uninterrupted power generation an...
Ratcliff works to scale paper-thin solar technology
Jul 26, 2022 (SPX)
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) selected University of Arizona chemical and environmental engineering associate professor ...
Solar car Sion to enter production in 2023
Jul 25, 2022 (AFP)
Following years of development, Sono Motors is now building a fleet of test vehicles before confiding mass production to Valmet Automotive, a Finnish company wh...
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