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Anchoring strategy helps to set new record of efficient ideal bandgap perovskite solar cells
Mar 10, 2022 (SPX)
In the reported ideal bandgap PSCs, a record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 22.51% was achieved. Bandgap of plumbum (Pb/lead)-based perovskite materials n...
Thailand makes green push with floating hydro-solar power project
Mar 10, 2022 (AFP)
The immense installation, covering 720,000 square metres of water surface, is a hybrid system that converts sunlight to electricity by day and generates hydropo...
This sustainable solar oven allows rural communities to cook without coal or firewood
Mar 09, 2022 (SPX)
Engineers in Nigeria have developed an improved solar cooking system that is designed to replace cooking over fires made with coal, wood, or other materials, re...
Rocket Lab begins qualification of highest performing space solar cell technology
Mar 09, 2022 (SPX)
The IMM-ss solar cell is expected to be the highest efficiency space solar cell technology in high-volume production. The cell boasts an average 33.3% Beginning...
Tiny skyscrapers help bacteria convert sunlight into electricity
Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used 3D printing to create grids of high-rise 'nano-housing' where sun-loving bacteria can grow quickly. The ...
NASA's Psyche gets huge solar arrays for trip to metal-rich asteroid
Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)
"Seeing the spacecraft fully assembled for the first time is a huge accomplishment; there's a lot of pride," said Brian Bone, who leads assembly, test, and laun...
World record solar cell goes from lab to industry
Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)
Q CELLS' R and D team in Thalheim, Germany, has worked jointly with Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin over the past three years to create a tandem solar cell comprising ...
Predicting solar cell performance from terahertz and microwave spectroscopy
Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)
Reference samples measured "We wanted to get to the bottom of these differences, and contacted experts from a total of 15 international laboratories to analyse ...
Workhorse of photovoltaics combined with perovskite in tandem for the first time
Feb 25, 2022 (SPX)
This is an important achievement, since PERC silicon cells on p-type silicon are the "workhorse" of photovoltaics, with a market share of about 50% of all solar...
Increasing efficiency in two-terminal tandem solar cells
Feb 18, 2022 (SPX)
To this end, a recent study published in the Journal of Photonics for Energy (JPE) explores the efficiency gain provided by tandem solar cells in which multiple...
Perovskite Solar Modules with a marble look
Feb 18, 2022 (SPX)
"Commercialization of this technology is still prevented by lacking stability of the modules and the difficulty to transfer the high efficiencies reached on sma...
Solar-powered system offers a route to inexpensive desalination
Feb 15, 2022 (SPX)
Now, a team of researchers at MIT and in China has come up with a solution to the problem of salt accumulation - and in the process developed a desalination sys...
Disorder-engineered inorganic nanocrystals set a new efficiency record for ultrathin solar cells
Feb 15, 2022 (SPX)
In the search for new technologies for thin photovoltaic systems, solar cells based on AgBiS2 nanocrystals have emerged as a star player in the game, consisting...
Making metal-halide perovskites useful in planar devices through a new hybrid structure
Feb 07, 2022 (SPX)
When arranged into a 2D structure (or quasi-2D structure with a few layers), defects in the crystal structure of Sn-based MHPs called "grain boundaries" hamper ...
Historic buildings could be protected from rising energy bills by solar panels
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
Researchers from the Centre for Doctoral Training in New and Sustainable Photovoltaics - a consortium of seven universities led by the University of Bath that t...
Rosendin powers up Nevada's newest solar facility
Feb 02, 2022 (SPX)
The new Townsite Solar + Storage facility features an innovative solar system and Tesla battery energy storage system (BESS). The new facility, located 20 miles...
Solvent additives improve efficiency of polymer solar cells
Jan 28, 2022 (SPX)
All-polymer blend solar cells are formed by combining two polymer solutions that solidify into a film on an electrode with in the form of interpenetrating netwo...
Scientists enhance energy storage capacity of graphene supercapacitors via solar heating
Jan 28, 2022 (SPX)
In low temperature environments, the hindered diffusion of electrolyte ions seriously restricts the electrochemical performance of supercapacitors. Electrode ma...
Bridging atmospheric scientists and solar engineers to reach carbon neutrality
Jan 27, 2022 (SPX)
That's the problem facing atmospheric scientists, who study various components of the Earth's atmosphere to better understand interactions and impact, and solar...
New technique boosts efficiency, sustainability of large-scale perovskite solar cells
Jan 26, 2022 (SPX)
The technique is low-cost, simple, energy-efficient, and should pave the way for creating perovskite solar cells. Perovskite is of interest for solar cells beca...
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