Enhancing solar efficiency with upconversion
Solar cell technologies have been improving incrementally over the decades, but energy conversion has remained less than optimal.
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Solar is the cheapest power, and a literal light-bulb moment showed us we can cut costs and emissions even further
Recent extreme weather events have underscored the need to cut the CO₂ emissions that are driving up global temperatures. This requires a rapid transition of the energy economy to renewable energy sources, the cheapest ...
Aug 1, 2022
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A stand-alone solar farm in Crete that integrates graphene perovskite solar panels
Perovskites, mineral materials composed of calcium titanate, have been found to be valuable for the fabrication of high-performance solar cells. While teams of scientists and engineers worldwide have been developing and testing ...
Energy & Green Tech
Scientists fabricate high-performance, large-area perovskite submodules for solar cells
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are promising solar technologies. Although low-cost wet processing has shown advantages in small-area PSC fabrication, the preparation of uniform charge transport layers with thickness of several ...
Jul 28, 2022
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Attaining better energy output by understanding power loss in organic solar cells
Photovoltaics will play a key role in the future energy supply. Conventional solar cells based, for instance, on silicon, a well-known semiconductor material, are already highly developed and in widespread use. However, their ...
Jul 22, 2022
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Toward manufacturing semitransparent solar cells the size of windows
In an important step toward bringing transparent solar cells to home windows, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a way to manufacture their highly efficient and semitransparent solar cells.
Jul 19, 2022
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Researchers fabricate highly transparent solar cell with 2D atomic sheet
Solar panels often get a bad rap for spoiling the appearance of homes and businesses. Yet, this may be about to change.
Jul 19, 2022
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Researchers 'shift the sun' to improve solar cells
Solar cells are a key feature of creating a sustainable energy ecosystem for the future. Existing solar arrays and cells can produce clean energy from the most abundant source in nature. But increasing their efficiencies ...
Jul 18, 2022
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Researchers develop strain relaxation for stable quasi-2D perovskite solar cells
The harvesting of solar energy has received extensive attention. Among all the light harvesting devices, perovskite solar cells (PSC) stand out in the photovoltaic field due to their advantages, including good photovoltaic ...
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Fully scalable all-perovskite tandem solar modules
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a prototype for fully scalable all-perovskite tandem solar modules. These modules have an efficiency of up to 19.1% with an aperture area of 12.25 ...
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Solar cell
A solar cell or photovoltaic cell is a device that converts light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes the term solar cell is reserved for devices intended specifically to capture energy from sunlight, while the term photovoltaic cell is used when the light source is unspecified. Assemblies of cells are used to make solar panels, solar modules, or photovoltaic arrays. Photovoltaics is the field of technology and research related to the application of solar cells in producing electricity for practical use. The energy generated this way is an example of solar energy (also called solar power).
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