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Stanford scientists invent ultrafast way to manufacture perovskite solar modules
Nov 27, 2020 (SPX)
For a greener alternative to silicon, researchers have focused on thin-film perovskites - low-cost, flexible solar cells that can be produced with minimal energ...
Efficient and durable perovskite solar cell materials
Nov 27, 2020 (SPX)
Recently, a POSTECH research team has developed an organic spacer molecular additive that can improve both the photoelectric efficiency and stability of perovsk...
Guiding the way to improved solar cell performance
Nov 27, 2020 (SPX)
When a packet of light, or photon, is absorbed by a semiconductor, it generates a pair of particles known as an exciton. An electron is one part of this pair; t...
Solar power stations in space could be the answer to our energy needs
Nov 22, 2020 (SPX)
A century later, however, scientists are making huge strides in turning the concept into reality. The European Space Agency has realised the potential of these ...
Trina Solar and Tongwei join forces to further upgrade the 210 integrated industrial chain
Nov 20, 2020 (SPX)
Gao Jifan, Chairman of Trina Solar, said that the two leading companies focused on 210 products and cooperated to make the 210 industrial ecosystem stronger and...
Trina Solar will purchase 85 million square meters of photovoltaic glass from Almaden
Nov 19, 2020 (SPX)
Trina Solar Co., Ltd., a leading global PV and smart energy total solution provider, and its eight subsidiaries (hereinafter collectively referred to as "Trina ...
Perovskite solar cells set to revolutionize solar sector, finds
Nov 19, 2020 (SPX)
Perovskite-based (third-gen) solar cell technologies have gained attention due to their low manufacturing costs and higher operational output and efficiency lim...
System can sterilize medical tools using solar heat
Nov 19, 2020 (SPX)
Now, a team of researchers at MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology has come up with a way to generate the needed steam passively, using just the power of ...
UK government commissions space solar power stations research
Nov 17, 2020 (SPX)
It is an idea first conjured by science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov in 1941, and is now being studied by several nations because the lightweight solar panels an...
Controlling perovskite ions' composition paves the way for device applications
Nov 16, 2020 (SPX)
Kobe University's Associate Professor TACHIKAWA Takashi (of the Molecular Photoscience Research Center) and Dr. KARIMATA Izuru (previously a graduate student en...
New green materials could power smart devices using ambient light
Nov 16, 2020 (SPX)
One way to power them is by converting indoor light from ordinary bulbs into energy, in a similar way to how solar panels harvest energy from sunlight, known as...
New strategy to 'buffer' climate change: developing cheaper, eco-friendly solar cells
Nov 12, 2020 (SPX)
The imminent threat of the climate change crisis is unequivocal, and given the urgency, there is a need to accelerate the renewable energy transition. In recent...
Solar perovskite production on a roll
Nov 11, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers at KAUST have developed a perovskite ink tailor-made for a mass manufacturing process called slot-die coating, producing PSCs that captured solar en...
New machine learning program to accelerate clean energy generation
Nov 11, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science have successfully created a new type of machine learning model to predict the power-conversion ef...
How to accelerate solar adoption for the underserved
Nov 10, 2020 (SPX)
In a new study published in Nature Energy, the Berkeley Lab researchers found that three of the five policy and business models they studied, including targeted...
Lead-free magnetic perovskites
Nov 09, 2020 (SPX)
Perovskites form a family of materials with many interesting properties: they are cheap to manufacture, have excellent light-emitting properties and can be tail...
ESA and CNES choose renewable energy to power Europe's Spaceport
Nov 09, 2020 (ESA)
About half the power at the base is used to cool buildings while energy-intensive solid and liquid propellant processes take up most of the rest. The yearly bil...
NTU scientists develop energy-saving 'liquid window'
Nov 06, 2020 (SPX)
The NTU researchers developed their 'smart window' by placing hydrogel-based liquid within glass panels and found that it can reduce up to 45 per cent of energy...
Research lays groundwork for ultra-thin, energy efficient photodetector on glass
Nov 05, 2020 (SPX)
A new paper, published by a team of Penn State researchers in ACS Nano, seeks to further advance photodetectors' use by integrating the technology with durable ...
Solar cells of the future
Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)
During his doctoral thesis, Andrej Classen, who is a young researcher at FAU, demonstrated that efficiency can be increased using luminescent acceptor molecules...
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