First Solar said Friday it plans to build a new $330 million manufacturing facility in Gaffney, South Carolina, to onshore ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers has raised the efficiency of perovskite solar cells to nearly 27 percent after ...

Thin film material own the property of bandgap and requires ten times lesser quantity of substrate material to absorb light as compared to other solar cells. These are employed in wide range 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 ...

Researchers at the Saitama University in Japan have fabricated a thin-film perovskite solar cell based on fluorinated phosphoric acid passivating additives and mixed solvents for passivating halide ...

Antimony-based thin film solar cells have emerged as a promising class of photovoltaic devices, blending earth-abundant, non-toxic materials with facile fabrication processes and excellent optical ...

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, ...

First Solar will invest $330 million in a new South Carolina factory, which will add 600 jobs and increase US-made solar capacity by 3.7 GW.

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 ...

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 ...