Energy & Green Tech
The world's first solid-state photovoltaics were reported in 1883, and were composed of selenium, which eventually led to the development of the present-day photovoltaics, although the wide bandgap of selenium was limiting ...
Dec 28, 2022 feature
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Energy & Green Tech
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China has established a new efficiency record for organic photovoltaic cells. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their approach ...
Aug 10, 2018 report
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Engineering
About 750 million people in the world do not have access to electricity at night. Solar cells provide power during the day, but saving energy for later use requires substantial battery storage.
Apr 5, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Australian photovoltaics researchers have made a 'cool' discovery: Singlet fission and tandem solar cells—two innovative ways to generate solar power more efficiently—also help to lower operating temperatures and keep ...
May 10, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
When it comes to the future of solar energy cells, say farewell to silicon, and hello to calcium titanium oxide—the compound mineral better known as perovskite.
Aug 3, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
In recent years, engineers worldwide have been developing various new technologies to generate and store energy more sustainably. These technologies include solar or photovoltaic cells, electrical devices that can convert ...
Jun 7, 2022 feature
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers in Korea have successfully developed a large-area, organic-solution-processable solar cell with high efficiency. They achieved their breakthrough by controlling the speed at which the solution of raw materials ...
Sep 9, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Solution-processed semiconductors, including materials such as perovskites and quantum dots (i.e., small particles of matter in the quantum size regime), are substances with a conductivity ranging between that of insulators ...
Nov 25, 2019 feature
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Engineering
Small changes in membrane design can have a large impact on the performance of a new technology developed at KAUST that uses waste heat from solar cells for seawater desalination.
Aug 3, 2021
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Hardware
A collaboration between University of Toronto Engineering, Northwestern University and the University of Toledo has resulted in an all-perovskite tandem solar cell with extremely high efficiency and record-setting voltage.
Nov 15, 2022
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