A new design principle has been identified that could eliminate the use of toxic chemicals in solar cell manufacturing. The standard manufacturing process of organic cells involves toxic solvents.

Researchers have set a new benchmark in solar technology, achieving a record-breaking power conversion efficiency of 25.7 percent for a perovskite-organic tandem solar cell. The innovative cell ...

Conceived by a research team from Germany’s University of Potsdam and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the tandem cell is based on a wide-bandgap perovskite bottom cell and a narrow-bandgap organic ...

Trying to improve the efficiency of solar cells to become independent from fossil energy sources is a major goal of solar cell research. Physicists now combine perovskite with organic absorbers to ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Organic solar cells hold transformative potential for renewable energy. Unlike traditional silicon panels, these devices can be printed like newspapers, bent like plastic, and ...

A team of Japan-based scientists have set a new power conversion efficiency record for all-organic solar cells, more than doubling the previous record. They say the cell was developed with rganic ...

A high power conversion efficiency of 26.4% has been achieved for tandem solar cells that consist of a wide-bandgap perovskite cell and an organic cell. This feat was made possible through an ...

Research provides a deeper understanding of precisely what is happening in organic solar cells as light is converted into electricity. Researchers developed a new method which visualizes interfaces ...

SERIS’ record-breaking perovskite-organic tandem solar cell uses a newly designed narrow-bandgap bottom layer to enhance photon harvesting. Image: SERIS/NUS Researchers at the Solar Energy Research ...

(Nanowerk News) New research from North Carolina State University provides a deeper understanding of precisely what is happening in organic solar cells as light is converted into electricity.

High-Speed Doctor-Blading Technique for Efficient Organic Solar Cells. This diagram illustrates the materials used in the high-speed doctor-blading process for organic solar cells (OSCs). The ...

Combining two materials that selectively absorb short and long wavelengths, e.g., blue/green and red/infrared parts of the spectrum, makes the best use of our sunlight and is a well-known strategy to ...