Physicists extend lifespan of perovskite solar cells
Silicon dominates the current commercial solar cell industry, offering an attractive combination of low cost, high efficiency and long lifespan.
Jul 10, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Silicon dominates the current commercial solar cell industry, offering an attractive combination of low cost, high efficiency and long lifespan.
Jul 10, 2024
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Engineering
Metal-halide perovskites have quickly advanced in the last decade since their discovery as a semiconductor that outshines silicon in its conversion of light into electric current.
Jun 26, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Metal halide perovskites, a class of crystalline materials with remarkable optoelectronic properties, have proven to be promising candidates for the development of cost-effective thin-film transistors. Recent studies have ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
In recent years, researchers have been experimenting with a wide range of solar cell designs in the hope of facilitating their widespread deployment. Organic solar cells based on perovskite materials have been found to exhibit ...
Energy & Green Tech
As the old saying goes, two heads are better than one. The same is true when it comes to solar cells working in tandem. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have prepared ...
Apr 26, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A team led by Prof. Yao Hongbin from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) developed a high efficiency, high brightness warm white light-emitting diode (LED) based on copper-iodide cluster hybrids. Their ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Engineering
In 1879, Edison invented the incandescent lamp, which brought light to the night. In 1969, the first red light emitting diodes (LEDs) lamp came out. However, as the key to making white light bulbs, high-energy blue light ...
Mar 15, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Today's commercial solar panels can convert about 15% to 20% of the sunlight they absorb into electrical energy—but they could be much more efficient, according to researchers at Soochow University. The next generation ...
Feb 29, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Our recent article published in Nature Energy relates our first attempt at the development of a scalable photoelectrochemical (PEC) system to produce green hydrogen.
Energy & Green Tech
Multi-junction solar cells, solar cells comprised of many individual semiconductor junctions stacked together, have the potential of outperforming single-junction solar cells both in terms of efficiency and stability. In ...