The team of more than 20 experts is optimistic about its advancement. Scientists achieve major breakthrough that could ...

Imagine turning any surface into a power source with ultra-lightweight, paper-thin solar cells. Thanks to researchers at MIT, this vision is becoming a reality. These innovative solar cells are so ...

Scientists have unlocked a new way to make solar panels far more efficient—up to 1,000 times better than current methods. The team at a German university achieved this by engineering ultra-thin, ...

Thin film solar cells represent a promising avenue towards cost-effective and sustainable photovoltaic energy conversion. These devices utilise semiconductor layers with thicknesses in the order of ...

Cu2SnS3 (CTS) thin films have emerged as a promising class of absorber materials for thin film solar cells due to their earth‐abundant, non‐toxic constituents and favourable optical and electronic ...

The Italian specialty module manufacturer has launched a new lightweight, semi-rigid, glass-free silicon solar panel reinforced with a thin aluminum sheet for marine, mobility, and other offgrid ...

The agreement brings the two companies’ technologies together to achieve mutually beneficial goals. It packages Ascent’s lightweight thin-film PV with NovaSpark’s mobile hydrogen generation systems, ...

Professor Yoke Khin Yap and his research group are improving the efficiency of solar cells one quantum dot at a time. × To sustainably power our digital future, the world needs more — and more ...

A team of researchers led by the UK’s University of Cambridge has developed an adhesive-free method of bonding ultra-thin gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar cells to borosilicate glass. The technique, ...

Researchers have achieved a new level of control over the atomic structure of a family of materials known as halide ...