Bright future for solar cell technology
New all-inorganic perovskite solar cells tackle three key challenges in solar cell technology: efficiency, stability, and cost.
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Apr 27, 2018
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Researchers refute 20-year-old assumptions in solar cell production
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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Perovskite solar cells: Perfection not required
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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Fully screen-printed monoPoly silicon solar cell technology
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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What it will take to decarbonize the economy
The transition to a renewable resource-based economy should not be limited to energy, but extend to all material goods; nevertheless, the most urgent transition must focus on energy. This will be a massive and complex endeavor ...
Environment
Dec 5, 2017
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The benefits of being a total space cadet
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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Enhancing solar power with diatoms
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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A RAVAN in the sun
While people across the nation gazed at August's total solar eclipse from Earth, a bread loaf-sized NASA satellite had a front row seat for the astronomical event.
Space Exploration
Sep 27, 2017
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Researchers measure light fields in 3-D
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 directly observe light-to-energy transfer in new solar cell materials
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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