There are fundamentally two ways to generate electricity. The first is based on electromagnetic induction, which remains the ...

It is possible to make a material emit more radiation than it absorbs, violating the laws of physics in a way that could make ...

To sustainably power our digital future, the world needs more — and more efficient — sources of renewable energy. Michigan ...

The new OSCs were found to be around 20% efficient, which is very high for this type of solar cell, especially for ones that ...

Perovskite solar cells promise to revolutionize clean energy, but fragile materials and finicky fabrication have stalled ...

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

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.

The basic technology behind Ambient Photonics’s solar cells is so simple that it’s routinely assembled as a high school science experiment. In labs across the US, students sandwich ...

Canadian solar panel maker Heliene and India’s solar cell maker Premier Energies are joining forces to build a US solar cell factory. This is great news for the US, as there is currently a ...