Korean researchers developed a hybrid technology that maximizes near-infrared light capture and power conversion efficiency.

We will admit that it is unlikely you have enough gear in your basement to make a solar cell using these steps. However, it is interesting to see how a bare silicon wafer becomes a solar cell.

The U.S. Space Force published footage of the test launch of a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from ...

Plans for a large solar farm between the M1 and A5 have been approved. The 54.9-hectare (136-acre) site, close to the villages of Kilsby and Crick in Northamptonshire, and is expected to operate ...

Too much, you say? 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 ...

U.S. solar company Suniva has started producing cells at its Georgia factory and is shipping them to customers, executives ...

Solar panels capture sunlight and convert it to electricity using photovoltaic (PV) cells like the one illustrated above. Such cells, which can power everything from calculators to cars (our ...

Investigating Performance Limitations in Cost-Effective Materials for Perovskite Solar Cells Nov. 6, 2024 — Researchers investigated the internal properties of low-cost materials used in ...

Solar panels consist of modules or photovoltaic (PV) cells. You can measure the efficiency of a PV cell based on the percentage of light energy it converts into electricity. Alternatively ...

Exeger, based in Stockholm, Sweden, makes solar cells that can transform any kind of light, including from the lights inside a room, into electrical power. When you think of solar power ...

Chinese research team has fabricated a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell without a hole transport layer (HTL) in the ...

The best solar cells can wring out nearly half that light energy as electricity. It happens like this: A photon from the sun strikes the solar panel's photoactive layer, which "knocks" an electron ...