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Transparent Solar Cells Can Take Us Towards a New Era of Personalized Energy
Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)
Today, the imminent climate change crisis demands a shift from conventionally used fossil fuels to efficient sources of green energy. This has led to researcher...
Photon Energy Commissions Additional Six PV Power Plants in Puspokladany, Hungary
Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)
In total, there will be ten power plants constructed and commissioned by the group in Puspokladany. On 12 October 2020, the Company grid-connected two power pla...
Aega invests in Norsk Solar
Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)
Aega has agreed to acquire an ownership share of 6 percent in Norsk Solar for a cash consideration of NOK 20 million. "Aega is an investment company that primar...
A versatile photodetector assisted by photovoltaic and bolometric effects
Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)
However, the limited exploitation of traditional materials or single detection mechanism faces the challenge of losing competitiveness. Inducing novel materials...
Hybrid photoactive perovskites imaged with atomic resolution for the first-time
Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)
These images have significant implications for improving the performance of solar cell materials and have unlocked the next level of ability to understand these...
FSU researchers investigate material properties for longer-lasting, more efficient solar cells
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
Florida State University Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Lea Nienhaus and former FSU postdoctoral researcher Sarah Wieghold are helping to und...
Promising strategies for durable perovskite solar cells
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers at Soochow University examined the mechanisms at play due to this intrinsic instability, as well as several degradation factors that influence the p...
Light on efficiency loss in organic solar cells
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
To harvest light, cutting-edge organic solar cells rely on bulk heterojunctions, blends of light-responsive electron donor and acceptor materials. When light st...
How to design organic solar cell materials
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
The situation is somewhat different in organic solar cells. Here, two organic materials are mixed together, rather than arranged in a layered structure. They ar...
Powering the future: new insights into how alkali-metal doped flexible solar cells work
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
Over time, in this effort, scientists have come to realize that doping - distorting a crystal structure by introducing an impurity - polycrystalline solar cells...
Photovoltaics industry can help meet Paris agreement targets
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
While no one knows exactly how an increase above 2 degrees Celsius would impact the planet, extraordinary climatic events would likely make many parts of the wo...
A blast of gas for better solar cells
Oct 28, 2020 (SPX)
The semiconducting element silicon is the material of choice for around 90 percent of solar cell production. When the silicon is doped with selected impurities,...
Turning streetwear into solar power plants
Oct 23, 2020 (SPX)
In the future, power sockets (at least for this purpose) could possibly become obsolete. The electricity would then come from our own clothes. By means of a new...
Radiative cooler that cools down even under sunlight
Oct 21, 2020 (SPX)
Professor Junsuk Rho and Ph.D. candidate Dasol Lee of departments of mechanical engineering and chemical engineering and Professor Jin Kon Kim and Ph.D. candida...
NREL advances thermochromic window technologies with colorful Perovskites
Oct 21, 2020 (SPX)
Heat generated by sunlight shining through windows is the single largest contributor to the need for air conditioning and cooling in buildings. Because resident...
Solar technology meets tradition on a Monson family farm
Oct 21, 2020 (SPX)
The system, dubbed "Million Little Sunbeams," and owned by Monson native Nate Tassinari and his wife Ania, is the first operational dual-use agricultural photov...
Studying new solar tracking strategies to maximize electric production
Oct 20, 2020 (SPX)
In addition to producing clean energy, solar plants can be adapted to different sizes and allow for self-consumption. Over the last few years, their profitabili...
Surrey is leading the way in perovskite tandem solar cells
Oct 19, 2020 (SPX)
Industry has also been paying close attention to the development of perovskite-based cells thanks to their low-cost and simple fabrication, and their efficient ...
DragonSCALES solar cells to launch on Sparkwing in-orbit demonstrator
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
DragonSCALES was developed to provide a low-cost, voltage-adjustable, high packing factor and lightweight solar power module that streamlines panel assembly and...
WMG and Senergy Innovations launch graphene enabled all polymer solar thermal cell
Oct 16, 2020 (SPX)
However, thanks to funding from BEIS (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) a team of researchers led by Professor Tony McNally, from WMG, at...
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