They've been successful because of their resilience and cost; however, they are heavier, more rigid, and less efficient than ...

Imagine solar panels so thin and pliable that you can power all your devices by slapping them onto your house, car, smartphone, and knapsack. That tech could be coming soon, thanks to Oxford ...

Researchers at the Tokyo City University have created a highly efficient and bendable tandem solar cell. The innovative design, which combines a semi-transparent inverted perovskite top cell with a ...

(Nanowerk News) Perovskite photovoltaic devices have garnered much attention from both the academic and industrial R&D world because they combine high power conversion efficiencies and low-cost ...

A major breakthrough in the field of solar energy has just been achieved with the creation of a low-cost and flexible solar cell capable of lasting nearly ten times longer than its predecessors. This ...

Researchers have developed a new type of back-contact solar cell design that will enable scalable, low-cost manufacturing as it uses a perovskite material and tiny grooves embossed into plastic film.

KIER achieves world’s highest efficiency of 23.64% with flexible perovskite/CIGS thin-film tandem solar cell The Korea Institute of Energy Research (President Yi Chang-keun, hereinafter referred to as ...

CSIRO achieved an efficiency rating as high as 15.5% for its printed flexible solar cell technology. Image: CSIRO. Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial ...

Research reveals new type of back-contact solar cell design, using a perovskite material and tiny grooves embossed into plastic film, will enable scalable, low-cost manufacturing The elimination of ...

Hiawatha Bray’s article about Active Surfaces’ solar technology ("Harnessing the sun: A Woburn startup’s flexible approach to solar cells could give the US industry a second chance," Business, Jan. 29 ...

Nanotechnology enables the use of materials with unique optical, electrical, and thermal properties. These materials can be engineered to absorb sunlight more efficiently, reduce energy loss, and ...