A blast of gas for better solar cells
Treating silicon with carbon dioxide gas in plasma processing brings simplicity and control to a key step for making solar cells.
Oct 26, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
How do solar panels work?
How do solar panels work? – Nathan, age 5, Melbourne, Australia.
Nov 6, 2019
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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 ...
Sep 4, 2018
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Tech firms are making computer chips with human cells. Is it ethical?
The year is 2030 and we are at the world's largest tech conference, CES in Las Vegas. A crowd is gathered to watch a big tech company unveil its new smartphone. The CEO comes to the stage and announces the Nyooro, containing ...
May 25, 2022
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Reordering the layers in solar-cell modules can help improve efficiency
A solar-cell module that mitigates cell-to-module losses has been developed by KAUST researchers following a rethink of the module's optical design and how it should be stacked.
Aug 22, 2022
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Engineering
Novel additive helps improve stability of perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells
Prof. Ye Jichun's team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has developed a long-alkyl- chain anionic surfactant (LAS) additive that can significantly ...
Apr 25, 2023
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Scientists develop high-efficiency monolithic perovskite/black silicon TOPCon tandem solar cells
A research group led by Prof. Ye Jichun at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has developed high-performance monolithic perovskite/black silicon (b-Si) ...
Oct 19, 2022
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A multilayered design strategy for high-efficiency thin crystalline silicon solar cells
Solar power has become indispensable in our global pursuit of clean energy and sustainability. Today, about 95% of solar cells are made using crystalline silicon (c-Si). Most commercial designs employ a c-Si photoactive layer ...
Sep 27, 2023
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A new way to improve solar cells can improve collision-avoidance systems of autonomous cars
When a team of engineers went to work in 2015 looking for a new technique to boost the cost-effectiveness of solar cells, they didn't realize they'd end with a bonus – a way to help improve the collision avoidance systems ...
Oct 5, 2017
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Using ammonia to heal perovskite film for solar panel construction
Since 2009, scientists have suspected that perovskite films, which are a combination of organic and inorganic material, could be promising for solar panel construction. Perovskites are very thin films with a specific crystal ...
Aug 15, 2022
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