A new model shows how transport resistance limits solar cell efficiency and how better fill factor predictions could help us develop more powerful photovoltaics One light bulb turned on (Courtesy: ...

JinkoSolar has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with XtalPi, an “AI for Science” platform company, to pursue high-throughput R&D on perovskite-crystalline-silicon tandem solar cells using an ...

Solar power is already one of the fastest growing sources of electricity on the planet, yet scientists say it is still only ...

The tandem device is based on a bottom organic cell that can achieve a remarkable power conversion efficiency of 17.9% and a high short-circuit current density of 28.60 mA cm2. Furthermore, it uses a ...

An innovative hybrid solar device that combines a PV panel and energy storage has achieved record levels of energy storage efficiency for such a device. And unlike conventional batteries, the ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...

The molecular structure of GTA, the normalized PCE curves of GTA-based IS-PSCs under various stretch and stretch-release cycles. Recently, a research team led by Professor Zhi-Guo Zhang from Beijing ...

CAPEX investment for setting up the PERC production is higher in the case of a MLD setup. Image: Fraunhofer ISE A solar cell manufacturing plant can reduce water consumption by up to 79% with existing ...

Crystalline-silicon solar panels are efficient, reliable, and dominate the solar-panel market. However, new third-gen solar technology could do what c-Si solar panels cannot, including flexible, ...