A team of physicists has discovered a method to temporarily halt the ultrafast melting of silicon using a carefully timed ...

Panasonic recently reported an all-back-contact HIT-structure with 25.6% conversion efficiency – the highest efficiency ever reached for a silicon solar cell.

Laser-assisted firing is a major breakthrough in solar cell technology because it can solve one of the key issues causing poor reliability in tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar cells ...

Will allow high-performance, all-back-contact solar cells to be manufactured at much lower cost than conventional cells. RED BANK, N.J., Jan. 27, 2015 /CNW/ -- Three months ago, Natcore Technology ...

Niecole Comeau - December 15, 2016 Dr. Kimberley Hall used ultrafast lasers in her lab to examine the exciton particles of perovskite, an emerging solar cell material. (Danny Abriel photos) ...

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 design of the device was presented in the scientific paper “ Silicon heterojunction back-contact solar cells by laser patterning,” which was recently published in nature.

One is the effect of solar radiation, which causes panel temperature to increase and – somewhat counterintuitively – results in a 10% to 25% decrease in the efficiency of PV cells.

Converting sunlight into electricity is the task of photovoltaic solar cells, but nearly half the light that reaches a flat silicon solar cell surface is lost to reflection. While traditional ...

Since 2009, the maximum efficiency of perovskite solar cells has risen from 3.9% to 30.1% —it took 37 years for crystalline silicon solar cells to achieve comparable efficiencies.