The efficieny result represents one of the best performances ever achieved for this kind of thin-film solar cell to date. The device was fabricated with a rear contact interface that reportedly ...

Designers of solar cells may soon be setting their sights higher, as a discovery by a team of researchers has revealed a class of materials that could be better at converting sunlight into energy than ...

A Chinese manufacturer has set a new world record for solar module efficiency. In lab tests, the efficiency rate of Trina's large-surface n-type completely passivated heterojunction (HJT) modules was ...

Space-based solar power could deliver clean electricity day and night, but launch costs, safety, and scale remain major ...

Trina Solar says new certified results in perovskite-crystalline silicon tandem cells and modules demonstrate progress toward industrial-scale next-generation PV.

A scanning electron microscope image of the perovskite silicon solar cell. Image: Fraunhofer ISE. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) have developed a perovskite ...

KAWASAKI, Japan & OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasonic Corporation has achieved the world's highest energy conversion efficiency of 16.09% for a perovskite solar module (Aperture area 802 cm 2: 30 ...

Last night’s Little Rock School District board meeting featured a long conversation over a plan to convert some of the district’s energy demands to be met by solar energy, designed to save the ...

Designers of solar cells may soon be setting their sights higher, as a discovery by a team of researchers has revealed a class of materials that could be better at converting sunlight into energy than ...