-- April 25, 1954 - Bell Labs introduces the modern silicon solar cell by powering a miniature Ferris wheel. ... -- March 17, 1958 - Vanguard 1 becomes the first solar-powered satellite.

Chinese solar module maker Longi has presented a new tandem perovskite-silicon solar cell with a 34.58% power conversion ...

See how three scientists at Bell Laboratories in 1954 invented the silicon solar cell that became the model for converting sunlight into electricity today Megan Gambino - Senior Editor June 11, 2013 ...

When a photon strikes a silicon solar cell, ... Turning to tetracene for help with exciting silicon was first proposed in 1979 by chemist David Dexter (J. Luminescence 1979, ...

Staff at the Osaka World Expo are wearing neck fans powered by next-generation perovskite solar cells that weigh less than a ...

The silicon solar cell had an efficiency of 2.3 percent, about five times greater than the selenium cell’s. Chapin immediately dropped selenium research and dedicated his time to improving the ...

The electrical performance of the first silicon singlet fission solar cell showed that tetracene absorbs the blue-green portion of the light, while low-energy photons are absorbed by the silicon.

Flexible silicon solar-cell fabrics may soon become possible Date: December 6, 2012 Source: Penn State Summary: For the first time, a silicon-based optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities has ...

This is the single most disruptive shift in solar since the first silicon solar cell was invented in Bell Labs 50 years ago,” he says. “There’s an arms race and big platform shift, which ...

The first consists of perovskite layers deposited from a liquid solution onto a smooth silicon surface, which reached an efficiency of 30.93 percent for a test cell measuring 1 cm 2 (0.2 in 2).

For the first time, a silicon-based optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities has been developed that has been shown to be scalable to many meters in length. The research opens the door to the ...