A single chemical additive applied during perovskite film deposition helped lift a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell to a ...

Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the material actually help, creating networks that separate and guide electric ...

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, ...

Solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electricity, are among the most promising solutions to source energy ...

Researchers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia and Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) in Germany have fabricated ...

Approach by EPFL and CSEM combines two thin-film perovskite cells and one silicon cell.

Researchers from the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) in Singapore have fabricated a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell based on a bottom TOPCon device relying on double-sided ...

Converting sunlight into electricity is the task of photovoltaic solar cells, but nearly half the light that reaches a flat silicon solar cell surface is lost to reflection. While traditional ...

Qcells has set a world record for the efficiency of a large-area silicon solar cell with a top layer of perovskite. This discovery could dramatically shrink the size of projects and slash costs for ...

Multicrystalline silicon remains the cornerstone of photovoltaic device production, benefitting from a balance between performance and cost. The manufacturing process typically involves directional ...

LONGi has announced another significant breakthrough in solar cell R&D, with its independently developed two-terminal crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell achieving a conversion efficiency ...