New electrolyte stops rapid performance decline of next-generation lithium battery
Argonne's new electrolyte mixture stabilizes silicon anodes during cycling.
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Experiments show dramatic increase in solar cell output
In any conventional silicon-based solar cell, there is an absolute limit on overall efficiency, based partly on the fact that each photon of light can only knock loose a single electron, even if that photon carried twice ...
Jul 3, 2019
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Researchers gain key insight into solar material's soaring efficiency
The rows of blue solar panels that dot landscapes and rooftops are typically made out of crystalline silicon, the workhorse semiconductor found in virtually every electronic device.
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Adding guanidinium thiocyanate to mixed tin-lead perovskites to improve solar cell efficiency
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has found a way to improve the efficiency of perovskite-based solar cells—by adding guanidinium thiocyanate to the mix. In their paper published in ...
Robotics
New cell-sized micro robots might make incredible journeys
Researchers have harnessed the latest nanofabrication techniques to create bug-shaped robots that are wirelessly powered, able to walk, able to survive harsh environments and tiny enough to be injected through an ordinary ...
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New records in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells through improved light management
Using microstructured layers, an HZB team has been able to increase the efficiency of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells, achieving 25.5 percent, which is the highest published value to date. The team used computational ...
Nov 13, 2018
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Light multiplication for stable improvement of solar cells
Now that solar cells based on silicon technology have nearly reached their efficiency limits, researchers from all over the world are looking for alternative technologies to further improve solar cell efficiency. Physicists ...
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Changing the type of silicon etching drops solar power costs by more than 10 percent
At the end of one of the hottest summers on record, as fights about how to power homes rage, renewable solar energy continues to present an option that does not significantly add greenhouse gases to the environment in exchange ...
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Researchers solve major challenge in mass production of low-cost solar cells
An international team of university researchers today reports solving a major fabrication challenge for perovskite cells—the intriguing potential challengers to silicon-based solar cells.
Jun 21, 2018
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Solar cells combining silicon with perovskite have achieved record efficiency of 25.2 percent
In the field of photovoltaic technologies, silicon-based solar cells make up 90 percent of the market. In terms of cost, stability and efficiency (20-22 percent for a typical solar cell on the market), they are well ahead ...
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