Their lightweight, transparent and foldable properties make them ideal for many applications where traditional silicon solar cells are impractical: think backpacks and tents outfitted with OSCs that ...

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

To increase the performance of solar panels, a team of researchers based in Saudi Arabia, Italy, Germany and Canada has created a bifacial, or two-sided, tandem solar cell. The prototypes bring ...

New analytical model makes groundbreaking discovery about potential of solar power and thin-film cells: 'The traditional models just weren't capturing the whole picture' ...

A research team from Peking University and Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School have used artificial intelligence (AI) ...

Commercial silicon-based solar cells have made significant improvements in efficiency over the past decade, increasing from around 15% efficiency in 2015 to just shy of 25% in 2025.

Streamlining solar cell structure and fabrication for more affordable energy fresh research at City University of Hong Kong published in Science Peer-Reviewed Publication Communications and ...

NUS scientists have developed a novel triple-junction perovskite/Si tandem solar cell that achieves a certified world-record power conversion efficiency of 27.1%.

Room-temperature-processed perovskite solar cells surpassing 24% efficiency. Joule, 2024; DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2024.04.002 ...