Researchers have achieved a new efficiency record in organic photovoltaic cells. The process could improve the production of new devices for energy harvesting and lighting.
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 19, 2018
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"The price of solar-generated electricity continues to plummet, and the technology is taking over as the least expensive form of energy in more and more parts of the world," says solar cell researcher John Atle Bones at SINTEF.
Robotics
Jun 14, 2018
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New all-inorganic perovskite solar cells tackle three key challenges in solar cell technology: efficiency, stability, and cost.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 27, 2018
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Research led by the University of Luxembourg investigated the manufacturing process of solar cells. The researchers proved that assumptions on chemical processes that were commonplace among researchers and producers for the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 23, 2018
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Metal-organic perovskite layers for solar cells are often fabricated using the spin-coating technique on compact substrates. These perovskite layers generally exhibit holes, yet attain astonishingly high levels of efficiency. ...
Materials Science
Jan 17, 2018
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The Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has reached a new cell efficiency milestone in the development of its low-cost screen-printed bifacial monoPoly silicon ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Dec 14, 2017
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Space research. What's it ever done for me? Well, quite a bit as it turns out ...
Space Exploration
Nov 22, 2017
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Diatoms, a kind of algae that reproduces prodigiously, have been called "the jewels of the sea" for their ability to manipulate light. Now, researchers hope to harness that property to boost solar technology.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 20, 2017
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Researchers from TU Graz and the University of Graz present the new method of 3-D-plasmon tomography in Nature Communications.
Nanophysics
Jun 26, 2017
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are now able to capture the moment less than one trillionth of a second a particle of light hits a solar cell and becomes energy, and describe the physics of the ...
Materials Science
Jun 2, 2017
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