Solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electricity, are now widely used in many countries worldwide. Over the past few years, energy engineers have been exploring alternative designs that ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE have reduced silver consumption in solar cell metallization to 1.1 mg/Wp using an electrodeposition-based process, down from ...

Researchers have built a hybrid solar device that generates electricity from both sunlight and falling raindrops, coupling two distinct energy-harvesting technologies into a single unit. The device ...

The TOPCon solar cells fabricated with screen-printed, fire-through copper rear contacts and silver front contacts, using laser-enhanced contact optimization (LECO) to significantly reduce contact ...

As a response to the global demand for clean energy transition, tandem solar cells are recognized as a crucial ...

Researchers at Australia's UNSW have developed the world's first comprehensive map of ultraviolet radiation for solar modules ...

Scientists achieve ‘impossible’ solar efficiency in renewables breakthrough - ‘Spin-flip’ technique promises to shatter ...

After a sharp decline in 2023, PV manufacturing capital expenditure is set to bounce back this year, and not just in China.

Rice University scientists and collaborators have created a new type of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor that comes closer ...

One of the most interesting updates in the solar energy space comes from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (via EES Solar), where researchers have developed 3D-printed, semi-transparent, flexible ...

A team at Fraunhofer ISE has created new imaging methods to measure losses in individual sub-cells of multi-junction solar cells based on perovskite-silicon and perovskite-perovskite-silicon ...

Materials scientists say they’ve taken nearly 300-year-old toxic waste—a stockpile of spherical lead bullets from the 16th ...