Mar 05, 2025 Liquid crystal structures key to organic solar cell performance Researchers improved organic solar cell fabrication by controlling molecular assembly, enhancing efficiency and stability, ...

Stellar PV is $4.7 million closer to bringing advanced solar manufacturing back to Australia with new funds for a feasibility study of a 2 GW low-emissions polysilicon ingot pulling and wafering ...

Earlier in the year, Longi announced it had achieved a power conversion efficiency of 34.6% for a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell, a new world record beating the company’s previous record ...

Technical Terms Multicrystalline Silicon: Polycrystalline material composed of multiple small silicon crystals, commonly used as a cost-effective substrate for solar cells.

The world agrees that solar energy is crucial in tackling climate change. The International Energy Agency reports that ...

According to a study published in Advanced Energy Materials, an international team has successfully reduced losses in the ...

Traditional solar cells are made of high-purity silicon wafers that are energy-intensive to produce. In addition, they can only absorb certain parts of the solar spectrum. By contrast, perovskite ...

The maximum theoretical efficiency of a silicon solar cell—the amount of energy in sunlight that is turned into electricity—is around 29%. This is possible only in laboratory conditions.

In 2019, another MIT research group demonstrated how singlet exciton fission could be applied to silicon solar cells and could lead to cell efficiencies as high as 35%.

The next-generation solar cell is fully recyclable Date: February 13, 2025 Source: Linköping University Summary: Researchers developed a method to recycle all parts of a solar cell repeatedly ...

A research group at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee has fabricated 4-terminal silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells with power conversion efficiency of 28%. The team is now scaling up ...