For instance, a solar cell generates electricity from the absorption and conversion of sunlight ... (b) Solar-powered PEC-pseudocapacitive mechanism. (c) Energy diagram of the system. (Reprinted with ...

"This research has produced a novel, realistically achievable, lattice-matched, multi-junction solar cell design with the potential to break the 50 percent power conversion efficiency mark under ...

Thin film solar cells such as CdTe and CIGSe have gained significant attention due to their low production cost and excellent power conversion ... on energy band diagrams, electric field ...

A new solar cell design could raise the energy conversion efficiency to over 50% by absorbing the spectral components of longer wavelengths that are usually lost during transmission through the cell.

So if it is a cubic inch cell then the mirror is about one square foot. 144 square inches. Instead of 24% conversion of sunlight to energy for regular solar panels they have about double. Part of the ...

Researchers have fabricated a new four-terminal organic solar cell with a tandem configuration with a 16.94% power conversion efficiency (PCE). The new device is composed by a highly transparent ...

A new protective coating has significantly increased the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells. Developed by Northwestern University scientists, the coating also extends the life ...

Traditionally, the goal of high power conversion efficiency in thin film solar cells has been compromised by opposing optical and electrical constraints – while a cell needs to be thick enough ...

Silevo won the award after it announced that its product achieved a conversion efficiency of greater than 21 percent “with its Triex solar cells at its high volume manufacturing facility—one ...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced it has established yet another world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) research cell conversion ...

An international research group has looked at how down-conversion (DC) materials could be used to improve the performance of PV cells based on perovskite. The team has found that such materials ...

Researchers from the Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology in Iran have published a report into improving the power conversion efficiency of ‘half-tandem’ perovskite solar cells ...