Engineering
Perovskite solar cells should be subjected to a combination of stress tests simultaneously to best predict how they will function outdoors, according to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy ...
Sep 12, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
While conventional silicon-based solar cells have had an unmistakable impact on the buildout of renewable energy resources around the world, additional performance improvements have become increasingly difficult to make as ...
Sep 5, 2023
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Engineering
Solar technologies have become increasingly advanced over the years, with the discovery of new photovoltaic materials and designs. While solar cells based on a mixture of organic and inorganic halide perovskite materials ...
Energy & Green Tech
Borrowing from cell membranes, the protective barriers around cells in all living organisms, Penn State scientists have developed a new, cost-effective method for creating bio-inspired solar devices that could improve the ...
Aug 16, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are promising in the photovoltaic market due to their advantages of high performance, low cost and easy fabrication of large-scale flexible devices.
Jul 31, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers have created a robot capable of conducting experiments more efficiently and sustainably to develop a range of new semiconductor materials with desirable attributes. The researchers have already demonstrated that ...
Jul 25, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
A bifacial perovskite solar cell, which allows sunlight to reach both sides of the device, holds the potential to produce higher energy yields at lower overall costs, according to scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's ...
Jul 18, 2023
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Engineering
Australian researchers have demonstrated that perovskite solar cells damaged by proton radiation in low-Earth orbit can recover up to 100% of their original efficiency via annealing in thermal vacuum.
Jul 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Perovskites, a class of materials with a characteristic crystal structure, have proved to be very promising for the fabrication of solar cells and photovoltaics. One of these materials is lead triodide (FAPbI3), a perovskite ...
Engineering
Two teams of solar-power engineers, one led by a large group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, the other led by a group at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, has found two ways to improve ...
