A new “energy-multiplying” solar breakthrough could push efficiency beyond 100% and transform how we capture sunlight.

A novel thin-film technology enables solar panels to generate electricity from both sunlight and raindrops.

A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunlight through singlet fission. The result ...

The breakthrough overcomes the long-standing limit of conventional solar cells to achieve an energy conversion efficiency of ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have boosted the power conversion efficiency of ...

For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came ...

Research appearing in Communications Materials has shown that perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are remarkably resilient to dust ...

Tesla is negotiating with Chinese suppliers including Suzhou Maxwell to buy $2.9 billion in solar manufacturing equipment for its 100 GW US production goal.

A research team in Italy has tested the performance of semitransparent wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells in underwater (UW) environments and has found that, at a 0.5–1 cm depth, the devices achieve ...

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

Japanese researchers developed a molybdenum-based spin-flip emitter that efficiently harvests triplet excitons from ...

Lead recycled from centuries-old ammunition provides raw materials for perovskite solar cells. Perovskite solar cells ...