Solar, or photovoltaic (PV), cells are electronic devices that essentially convert the solar energy of sunlight into electric energy or electricity. The physics of solar cells is based on the same ...

How do the photovoltaic cells that lie at the heart ... She earned a Ph.D. in physics at UC Santa Cruz, where she researched ways to generate solar energy from semiconducting plastics.

Tandem solar-cell technology featuring silicon has been widely researched but materials such as perovskites, paired with ...

Researchers at the Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics (IAP), Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and ...

A multi-junction solar cell developed by NREL. It glows red due to gallium indium phosphide in the top layer. Credit: NREL The physics involved is complex, and the limit comes down to multiple ...

Scientists at Oxford University’s Physics Department have developed a groundbreaking technology that could transform how we ...

The Survey Committee, informed by the activities of Academies-appointed study panels, informal working groups, and input from the solar and space physics community, will generate consensus ...

Scientists from Swansea University have developed a new tool to help identify optimal photovoltaic (PV) materials capable of ...

Imagine solar panels so thin and pliable that you can ... That tech could be coming soon, thanks to Oxford University’s physics department, which may have made a major breakthrough that could ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Climate change, renewables and systems research. Workers install solar panels at a home in San Francisco, California. A record 7.2 ...

In time, the researchers believe that perovskites could allow solar panels to exceed 45% efficiency — the upper limit based on current approaches and our understanding of physics. This will ...

Researchers from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in India have proposed a new copper indium gallium ...