A solar panel on a rooftop in Stanford, California, kept producing electricity well after sunset. No battery was involved.

One of the hindrances to large-scale solar adoption, especially in cities, is where to install the chunky panels. Rooftops?

A new model shows how transport resistance limits solar cell efficiency and how better fill factor predictions could help us develop more powerful photovoltaics One light bulb turned on (Courtesy: ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...

A research team in India has investigated the use of highly conductive transparent electrodes based on amorphous indium zinc made with a room temperature process in perovskite solar cells. The devices ...

Solar cells that combine traditional silicon with cutting-edge perovskites could push the efficiency of solar panels to new heights. Beyond Silicon, Caelux, First Solar, Hanwha Q Cells, Oxford PV, ...

A new study of perovskites suggests the very imperfections once thought to hinder performance may help power the future of ...

The molecular structure of GTA, the normalized PCE curves of GTA-based IS-PSCs under various stretch and stretch-release cycles. Recently, a research team led by Professor Zhi-Guo Zhang from Beijing ...

Researchers in Germany and Spain have developed a fast vacuum coating process capable of ...

The research group led by Professor Martin Green has not published yet Version 67 of the solar cell efficiency tables, due to production delays. Green, however, has accepted to comment on some of the ...