Traditional solar panels usually use rigid silicon wafers anywhere from 120 to 200 micrometers thick. Researchers develop ...

Solar power is already one of the fastest growing sources of electricity on the planet, yet scientists say it is still only ...

A scanning electron microscope image of the perovskite silicon solar cell. Image: Fraunhofer ISE. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have developed a perovskite ...

Trina Solar says new certified results in perovskite-crystalline silicon tandem cells and modules demonstrate progress toward ...

Researchers from Fraunhofer’s ‘MaNiTU’ project produced a perovskite silicon tandem solar cell with a conversion efficiency of 31.6% on an area of 1cm². Image: Fraunhofer ISE. In a joint project ...

A research group at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee has fabricated 4-terminal silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells with power conversion efficiency of 28%. The team is now scaling up this ...

Solar panels are an increasingly efficient, cost-effective, and higher-power-density renewable-energy source, though most ...

Scientists have devised an efficient method of recovering high-purity silicon from expired solar panels to produce lithium-ion batteries that could help meet the increasing global demand to power ...

A supplier of equipment to the e-mobility industry, including electric vehicles (EVs), joined with one of the largest U.S. independent power producers at a groundbreaking for the first of four solar ...

Is space-based solar power a costly, risky pipe dream? Or is it a viable way to combat climate change? Although beaming solar power from space to Earth could ultimately involve transmitting gigawatts, ...