Energy & Green Tech
An international collaboration led by EPFL chemical engineers has overcome a problem in the manufacturing of perovskites that reduces their efficiency as solar panels. The approach produced perovskite solar panels with an ...
Nov 11, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A research team led by Prof. Xu Jixian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) designed and fashioned a novel porous insulator contact (PIC) for perovskite solar ...
Mar 10, 2023
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Engineering
Passive day cooling is a promising technology for the sustainable reduction of energy consumption. It avoids the heating up of buildings by solar radiation and dissipates accumulated heat without external energy consumption. ...
Jul 18, 2022
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Engineering
As the world gets warmer, the use of power-hungry air conditioning systems is projected to increase significantly, putting a strain on existing power grids and bypassing many locations with little or no reliable electric ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Engineering
A multifunctional molecule that plugs various atomic-scale defects in perovskite solar materials can significantly boost the longevity and electrical output of this promising solar technology, KAUST researchers have shown.
Aug 18, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
As a promising photovoltaic material, metal halide perovskite yields high efficiency in solar cells. However, the deep-level traps of minority carriers at the surface of the p-i-n perovskite solar cells can suppress nonradiative ...
Nov 25, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Puzzling out and testing new ways to improve the efficiency of cadmium telluride (CdTe) polycrystalline thin-film photovoltaic materials is a typical day in the life of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) research ...
Jun 9, 2021
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Engineering
Soft magnetic composites, which are fabricated based on metallic magnetic powders via insulation coating, binding, compaction, and annealing, serve as the key fundamental material in various fields including energy, transportation, ...
Nov 25, 2022
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Business
Taking key measures to reduce the power consumption of cooling equipment would cut at least 60 percent off predicted 2050 sectoral emissions, provide universal access to life-saving cooling, take the pressure off energy grids ...
Dec 5, 2023
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