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Silicon solar cells were supposed to be running out of headroom, yet a new device has pushed their performance to 27.81% efficiency and reset expectations for what a single-junction cell can do. That ...

Energy can never be created or destroyed. That's basic Physics 101. You simply cannot create energy out of thin air. Yet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The singlet fission experiment captured energy with high efficiency. (Kyushu University) Scientists are always pushing the ...

Researchers from University of Genoa and University of Rome Tor Vergata are taking on two well-known metal halide perovskite (MHP) solar PV challenges, reducing the amount of lead while maintaining a ...

Perovskite solar cells offer much higher efficiency than silicon. Cambridge researchers have developed a far more stable perovskite structure, stacking ultra-thin layers at atomic precision to improve ...

A group of researchers from China's Fujian Normal University and the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom has fabricated a carbon-based on antimony sulfoselenide (Sb2(S,Se)3) solar cell that ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a new material that allows solar cells to generate an amount of energy from sunlight that ...

The latest release of the PV Manufacturing & Technology Quarterly, the leading solar photovoltaic (PV) market research report dedicated to manufacturing and technology, highlights the change in the ...

Patents have been filed for an innovative silicon solar cell coating that could increase efficiency, reduce heat, and extend panel lifetimes using singlet fission, according to pv magazine.

JinkoSolar, the global leading PV and ESS supplier, recently published three research papers in succession within a single ...