The existing model for explaining how current flows through solar cells, known as the Shockley diode equation, is nearly eight decades old — roughly as old as the first practical silicon solar ...

The high transparency, at 95 percent, means it can even be used simultaneously as window glass and as a solar cell. However, it is also possible to stack several such ultra-thin layers one on top of ...

Physicists at TU Dresden have succeeded for the first time in producing organic solar cells that also function as efficient OLEDs.

SAN JOSE, Calif. &#151 GE Global Research, the centralized research organization of the General Electric Co., disclosed the development of a carbon nanotube diode for use in developing cheaper solar ...

In a world first, a team at the University of New South Wales has demonstrated measurable power generation from "the inverse of a conventional solar cell." It could eventually produce around one ...

REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. (July 6, 2015) -- U.S. Army researchers have developed a tiny photovoltaic solar cell for the conversion of light energy into electrical energy that it resulted in a patent ...