Discover how to build a simple solar cell at home using everyday materials! This step-by-step tutorial demonstrates how to ...

Solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electricity, are now widely used in many countries worldwide. Over the ...

Research appearing in Communications Materials has shown that perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are remarkably resilient to dust ...

The work could ultimately have significant benefits for panel users. Scientists make breakthrough that could revolutionize solar panels: 'Among the highest efficiencies reported to date' first ...

Perovskite materials have rapidly emerged as a leading class of compounds in the field of optoelectronics, driving significant advances in solar cell and ...

Despite being riddled with impurities and defects, solution-processed lead-halide perovskites are surprisingly efficient at converting solar energy into electricity. Their efficiency is approaching ...

In space, satellites face brutal temperature shifts from hot sunlight to freezing shadows. For ...

Inverted perovskite solar cells offer strong potential for scalable, low-cost solar power, but a hidden interface inside the device has limited their performance and durability. Researchers have now ...

Researchers from the Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory (PV-Lab) in EPFL's School of Engineering and CSEM ...

The Silicon and New Concepts for Solar Cells (SyNC) research group at the Institute of Solar Energy (IES) of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) has produced high-efficiency two-dimensional ...

Researchers from the University of Arkansas in the United States have fabricated a graphene-based solar cell that can be used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The device was developed in the ...

Using a new method, physicists found a way to 'catapult' electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second.