The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has updated its Best Research-Cell Efficiency Chart with the inclusion of a new cell category – Hybrid Tandems.

However, in their current form, solar cells scoreless on efficiency, converting only about a quarter of the solar energy they ...

Bifacial perovskite solar cells are known for their ability to harness sunlight from both sides. Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) recently made significant strides in their ...

BarcelonaTech (UPC) in Spain have designed hybrid solar cells that can generate electricity and store it onboard. This is the ...

A team of materials scientists and solar engineers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, working with a colleague ...

The graphene-silicon solar cell is reportedly able to achieve a power conversion efficiency of 18.8%. “Pseudo J–V curve shows a pseudo fill factor of 80.6% without the serious resistance ...

It’s never enough! The problem is that the sun only outputs so much energy per unit of area on Earth, and solar cells can only be so efficient thanks to some fundamental physical limits.

Risen said the cell was certified by the Chinese National Photovoltaic Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center.

Researchers from HZB and Humboldt University Berlin have developed a CIGS-perovskite tandem solar cell that achieves a record ...

Combining two semiconductor thin films into a tandem solar cell can achieve high efficiencies with a minimal environmental footprint. Teams have now presented a CIGS-perovskite tandem cell that sets a ...

Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) say they have set a new world record efficiency for a kesterite solar cell, a type of solar cell that has the potential to deliver long ...