Perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells have become a global research hotspot in advanced photovoltaics due to their potential of surpassing the Shockley-Queisser theoretical limit efficiency of ...

Solar energy plays a big role in the fight against climate change. As the world turns to solar power, concerns about the ...

In a new scientific paper published in nature, the Chinese manufacturer presented a new tandem perovskite-silicon solar cell based on a bottom cell with a heterojunction design. It also used a new ...

Staff at the Osaka World Expo are wearing neck fans powered by next-generation perovskite solar cells that weigh less than a ...

Solar cells that combine traditional silicon with cutting-edge perovskites could push the efficiency of solar panels to new heights. Beyond Silicon, Caelux, First Solar, Hanwha Q Cells, Oxford PV ...

A Spanish-Finnish research team has fabricated an IBC solar cell with an ultrathin black silicon wafer with a thickness of 40 µm. The device is based on vanadium oxide and laser-processed ...

When you think of solar panels, you usually picture giant cells mounted to face the sun. But what if "solar" cells could be charged using fluorescent lights?

A team of researchers has discovered that tiny, ever-changing structures inside cutting-edge solar cell materials could be ...

Combined, these factors sap the efficiency of perovskite solar cells and mean that none lasts nearly as long as a sheet of silicon. The new works tackle these issues from two very different ...

In most industrialized countries, solar panels account for only a quarter to a third of the overall cost of building a solar farm. All the other expenses—additional hardware, financing ...

Since 2009, the maximum efficiency of perovskite solar cells has risen from 3.9% to 30.1%—it took 37 years for crystalline silicon solar cells to achieve comparable efficiencies.

When incorporated into a solar cell structure, ... we could see something similar used as part of tandem solar cells that would combine the materials with silicon solar cells to bolster energy ...