(Nanowerk Spotlight) Almost all strategies for solar energy harvest and solar energy storage that exist today are developed as independent technologies. For instance, a solar cell generates ...

Scientists have created a solar cell thinner than a human hair with a conversion efficiency of nearly 50 percent, more than double the efficiency of devices currently sold on the commercial market and ...

An enormous source of clean energy is available to us. We see it almost every day. It's just a matter of harnessing it. The problem with solar energy is that it has not been inexpensive enough in the ...

Scientists have set a new solar-to-grid system conversion efficiency record by achieving a 31.25 percent net efficiency rate. The old 1984 record of 29.4 percent was toppled Jan. 31 on SES's "Serial ...

TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced it has established yet another world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) research cell conversion ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have revealed that a type of salt can improve the efficiency of perovskite solar cells. Called guanidinium thiocyanate ...

A research team from China’s Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech) has developed and constructed a novel anthraquinone-based solar redox flow battery (SRFB) device. The system consists of redox ...

LONGi Solar’s module shipments for 2020 reached a record 24.53GW. Image: LONGi Solar. LONGi Solar has set a new record conversion efficiency for an n-type monocrystalline bifacial TOPCon cell of 25.09 ...

Researchers just hit two benefits with one catalyst. They converted methane (CH 4), a potent greenhouse gas, into ethylene (C 2 H 4), a highly demanded raw material in industrial sectors, using ...

Organic photovoltaics developer Solarmer Energy has achieved the highest conversion efficiency recorded so far for a plastic OPV champion cell—7.9%. The aperture-area test results, recently certified ...