Light can hit a lead halide perovskite crystal that is anything but pristine and still end up as useful electric current.

Researchers have developed a solar cell system that uses mirrors to concentrate solar energy. In addition to electricity, it produces heat for a plant that will capture carbon from industrial ...

Perovskite solar cells operated for months in low Earth orbit and tolerated radiation equivalent to decades in space, marking the most comprehensive orbital test of the technology.

Despite being riddled with impurities and defects, solution-processed lead-halide perovskites are surprisingly efficient at ...

Scientists at the European Commission Joint Research Centre tested two single-junction perovskite modules outdoors for one year and reported overall stable performance, supported by a new ...

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High-resistivity silicon wafers offer superior efficiency potential but are highly sensitive to edge recombination and mechanical damage, limiting their commercial use compared to more robust standard ...

A cluster of recent laboratory advances in ultra-thin solar cells suggests that lightweight, flexible photovoltaic devices may be able to move beyond niche prototypes if researchers can solve ...

Organic solar cells have long promised a future of lightweight, flexible energy harvesting, but their tendency to degrade ...

Fan Bin, founder of GCL Optoelectronics, about how high-throughput experimentation and AI-driven optimization are ...

Scientists in Hungary found that ground-mounted solar modules at an intermediate elevation of 1.1 metres achieve the highest ...