Solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electricity, are now widely used in many countries worldwide. Over the ...

Using a new method, physicists found a way to 'catapult' electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second.

NASA researchers have developed reinforced perovskite-based solar cells targeting roughly 26% efficiency, engineered ...

An innovative hybrid solar device that combines a PV panel and energy storage has achieved record levels of energy storage efficiency for such a device. And unlike conventional batteries, the ...

A new model shows how transport resistance limits solar cell efficiency and how better fill factor predictions could help us develop more powerful photovoltaics One light bulb turned on (Courtesy: ...

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have demonstrated the non-destructive, room-temperature deposition of amorphous indium zinc oxide (a-IZO) transparent electrodes (TEs) for ...

The tandem device is based on a bottom organic cell that can achieve a remarkable power conversion efficiency of 17.9% and a high short-circuit current density of 28.60 mA cm2. Furthermore, it uses a ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...

The molecular structure of GTA, the normalized PCE curves of GTA-based IS-PSCs under various stretch and stretch-release cycles. Recently, a research team led by Professor Zhi-Guo Zhang from Beijing ...