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Harvesting light like nature does
Jun 06, 2021 (SPX)
The research provides a foundation for overcoming the difficult challenges involved in the creation of hierarchical functional organic-inorganic hybrid material...
Holograms increase solar energy yield
Jun 06, 2021 (SPX)
One way to capture solar energy is to use solar cells that directly turn sunlight into electricity. In a solar module like those that people place on their roof...
Major advance in fabrication of low-cost solar cells also locks up greenhouse gases
Jun 06, 2021 (SPX)
Now a team at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering has developed a process to solve one of them, a bottleneck in a critical step involving p-type doping of orga...
U-M researchers trace path of light in photosynthesis
Jun 04, 2021 (SPX)
"Our study highlights the different ways in which nature has made use of the basic reaction center architecture that emerged over 3 billion years ago," said lea...
Synthesis of perovskite visible-light-absorbing semiconductor material
Jun 04, 2021 (SPX)
Semiconductors that can exploit the omnipresent visible spectrum of light for different technological applications would serve as a boon to the material world. ...
Maxeon Solar Technologies to supply solar panels for Primergy's GW-Scale Gemini Project
May 21, 2021 (SPX)
"We are thrilled to select Maxeon Solar Technologies to supply solar modules for our Gemini solar and energy storage project in southern Nevada. Because of Maxe...
Renewable energy powers ahead in 2020: report
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
Around 280 gigawatts (GW) of electricity production capacity was added last year, a 45-percent increase from the amount added in 2019, according to the IEA. Tha...
'Molecular glue' makes perovskite solar cells dramatically more reliable over time
May 07, 2021 (SPX)
"There have been great strides in increasing the power-conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells," said Nitin Padture, a professor of engineering at Brown...
Closing in on state-of-the-art semiconductor solar cells
May 07, 2021 (SPX)
Solar cells that rely on perovskite thin films to capture sunlight are the fastest growing photovoltaic technology. Cheaper and easier to manufacture and incorp...
Space weather and solar blobs
May 07, 2021 (SPX)
The three-year awards will fund research into a process known as magnetic reconnection, the coming together and explosive separation of magnetic field lines in ...
Researchers unveil roadmap to expand NY solar energy, meet green goals
May 07, 2021 (SPX)
"As farmland is generally flat and cleared, agricultural land will be the prime target for future solar energy development," said Max Zhang, professor in the Si...
Northrop Grumman Solar Arrays to Power Airbus OneSat Spacecraft
May 04, 2021 (SPX)
The solar array technology features the Northrop Grumman Compact Telescoping Array (CTA) design that utilizes a telescoping boom system to deploy an accordion-f...
Solar development: super bloom or super bust for desert species?
May 04, 2021 (SPX)
More currently, operators of the massive Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert are spending around $45 million on desert tortoise mitiga...
'Twisting' atomic materials may convert light into electricity
May 01, 2021 (SPX)
Nathaniel Gabor and Vivek Aji, both associate professors of physics and astronomy, will focus on how the fundamental science of light and its interaction with m...
Combining solar panels and lamb grazing increases land productivity, study finds
May 01, 2021 (SPX)
This is believed to be the first study to investigate livestock production under agrivoltaic systems, where solar energy production is combined with agricultura...
Airports could generate enough solar energy to power a city: Study
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers at RMIT University compared electricity generated by residential solar panels in a regional Australian city to the potential green energy production...
Solar-powered desalination unit shows great promise
Apr 28, 2021 (SPX)
In AIP Advances, by AIP Publishing, scientists in China report the development of a highly efficient desalination device powered by solar energy. The device con...
Ten ways to ensure bees benefit from the solar power boom
Apr 26, 2021 (SPX)
Space-hungry solar photovoltaic (PV) is set to dominate future global electricity supply, but with careful decision making, efforts to secure clean energy need ...
Toward new solar cells with active learning
Apr 26, 2021 (SPX)
In machine learning, this correspondingly means that a learning algorithm needs to have been exposed to roughly similar data. But what can we do if there is a n...
Solar panels are contagious - but in a good way: Study
Apr 26, 2021 (SPX)
Although it is known that peer effects are relevant for sustainable energy choices, very high-resolution data combined with artificial intelligence techniques w...
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