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Secrets Behind Performance of Super-Efficient Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells

The best hope for cheap, super-efficient solar power is a remarkable family of crystalline materials called hybrid perovskites. In just five years of development, hybrid perovskite solar cells have attained power conversion efficiencies that took decades to achieve with the top-performing conventional materials used to generate electricity from sunlight.

18 Mar 2015

Scientists Identify Mechanism Behind Singlet Exciton Fission Process for Development of More Powerful Solar Cells

The underlying mechanism behind an enigmatic process called “singlet exciton fission”, which could enable the development of significantly more powerful solar cells, has been identified by scientists in a new study.

18 Mar 2015

Natcore Develops All-Back-Contact Silicon HIT-Structure Solar Cell Using Laser Technology

Scientists working in the Rochester R&D Center of Natcore Technology Inc. have produced an all-back-contact silicon "HIT-structure" (heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer) solar cell using their proprietary laser technology.

17 Mar 2015

Solar Energy Cheaper Than Fossil Fuel Energy

US based, Rayton Solar Inc is in route to revolutionize the world – by making solar energy cheaper than energy produced by fossil fuels.

12 Mar 2015

Sunpartner Collaborates with ALCATEL ONETOUCH to Optimize Wysips® Connect PV LiFi Receiver

Last year at Mobile World Congress 2014, Sunpartner Technologies, the French specialist in innovative solar solutions, unveiled the world's first photovoltaic LiFi receiver: Wysips® Connect. Today, the company is developing this ground-breaking technology with CEA-Leti, a French public research institute.

5 Mar 2015

Arzon Solar Introduces Fully Integrated uModule CPV Platform with High Efficiency and High Power

Arzon Solar, LLC, the world’s premier designer and manufacturer of high performance concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar modules and systems, is introducing a new CPV platform called the “Universal Module” (uModule™).

23 Feb 2015

Natcore Scientists Produce All-Low-Temperature Laser-Doped Solar Cell

Three months ago, Natcore Technology announced that its scientists had created an all-low-temperature, laser-processed solar cell.

28 Jan 2015

NREL Achieves Record 45.7% Efficiency for Four-Junction Concentrator Solar Cell

The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has announced the demonstration of a 45.7 percent conversion efficiency for a four-junction solar cell at 234 suns concentration. This achievement represents one of the highest photovoltaic research cell efficienciesJPG achieved across all types of solar cells.

24 Dec 2014

Multi-Junction Solar Cell Developed by French-German Cooperation Demonstrates 46% Conversion Efficiency

A new world record for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity has been established. The record multi-junction solar cell converts 46 % of the solar light into electrical energy and was developed by Soitec and CEA-Leti, France, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Germany.

2 Dec 2014

Unwanted Blu-Ray Movie Discs Can Improve Performance of Solar Cells

Who knew Blu-ray discs were so useful? Already one of the best ways to store high-definition movies and television shows because of their high-density data storage, Blu-ray discs also improve the performance of solar cells -- suggesting a second use for unwanted discs -- according to new research from Northwestern University.

26 Nov 2014

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