Solar energy, while an attractive alternative energy source, has a big problem: the cells that are used to make conventional solar panels are often expensive to make. The solar cell is the essential ...

Solar panels are an increasingly efficient, cost-effective, and higher-power-density renewable-energy source, though most ...

While solar energy is renewable, the manufacturing process for panels is energy intensive. Professor David Lidzey and Power Roll Ltd have developed a solar cell design that could be easier to produce ...

Texas Instruments and Avnet are to present a webcast for designers entitled “New Design Concepts in a Power Stage for solar- or Fuel-cell Applications” on wednesday, April 11 at 1800 hours CET. The ...

Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory, in collaboration with Imperial College London and MicroLink Devices, have proposed a novel triple junction solar cell with the potential to break the 50 ...

Scientists from the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have proposed a novel triple-junction solar cell with the potential to break the 50 per cent conversion efficiency barrier. ‘This research has ...

Members of the Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science based at RMIT, Monash University and Australia’s national science agency CSIRO have removed human error from ...

The introduction of a nanometric germanium oxide layer drastically improved device performance and stability. As the global demand for clean energy accelerates, solar power continues to attract ...

Solar3D, a US-based developer of 3-dimensional solar cell technology, has performed a series of tests of its new silicon solar cell design that projects the efficiency to be 25.47%. The company’s ...