Researchers led by Yuan Yang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Columbia Engineering, along with colleagues at the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University, and ...

A new six-junction solar cell, developed by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), converts 47.1% of incident light into electricity when combined with optical concentration. Indications thus ...

Solar energy has the power to reduce greenhouse gases and provide increased energy efficiency, says a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, in a report (view it ...

Researchers have revealed a class of materials that could be better at converting sunlight into energy than those currently used in solar arrays. Their findings show how a ferroelectric insulator can ...

Three factors make going solar an increasingly attractive and smart decision for breweries: the high energy costs associated with the brewing process, the suitability of brewing facilities’ flat roofs ...

Scientists have set a new solar-to-grid system conversion efficiency record by achieving a 31.25 percent net efficiency rate. The old 1984 record of 29.4 percent was toppled Jan. 31 on SES's "Serial ...

Solar cells convert the sun's energy into electricity by converting photons into electrons. A new solar cell design could raise the energy conversion efficiency to over 50% by absorbing the spectral ...

German solar technology firm Heliatek claims to have outdone itself by setting a new world record for directly converting sunlight into electricity using organic photovoltaic cells. In 2012 it claimed ...

Researchers worldwide have been working to optimize solar panels to allow more free clean energy to be gathered from the sun. One of the materials that researchers have been investigating as a ...

Nitride semiconductors have emerged as pivotal materials in solar energy conversion due to their versatile electronic properties and the opportunity they offer to exploit earth‐abundant elements.

Researchers have revealed that a type of salt can improve the efficiency of perovskite solar cells. Called guanidinium thiocyanate, the salt boosts perovskite solar cells' power conversion efficiency ...

The ‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member said this week it has achieved 22.8% conversion efficiency for its p-type multi-crystalline silicon ‘P5’ cell, a gain on the 22.28% mark it claimed to ...