June 1st, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
Solar records are broken left and right. We can't cover them all, of course, but try to cover the big ones. Recently, researchers ar Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, set a pretty big one. They increased the solar cell efficiency record of flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium (di)selenide (aka CIGS) from 17.6% to 18.7%, a pretty significant increase
May 9th, 2011 | by Guest Contributor
Basic scientific curiosity paid off in unexpected ways when Rice University researchers investigating the fundamental physics of nanomaterials discovered a new technology that could dramatically improve solar energy panels
December 10th, 2010 | by Tina Casey
Working on a molecular level, scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the University of Colorado are developing a
November 24th, 2010 | by Zachary Shahan
Sharp, GE, Google, Boeing,… who isn’t in the clean tech game these days? Boeing (yes, the airplane company) has just
July 15th, 2010 | by Zachary Shahan
[social_buttons] In a move to try to create a solar cell conversion efficiency rate of over 20%, Chinese company JA
June 20th, 2010 | by Tina Casey
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are hot on the heels of a discovery that could more than
May 19th, 2010 | by Tina Casey
Maybe castor beans are good for something besides castor oil – California based BioSolar has come up with a high-performance
February 14th, 2010 | by Tina Casey
You just can’t rest on your solar laurels these days. Just a couple of months ago the Energy Research Center
October 23rd, 2009 | by Zachary Shahan
Solarmer Energy broke the world record for plastic cell efficiency last year. Now, they’ve just broken it again. The new
March 24th, 2009 | by Alex Felsinger
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new treatment for silicon photovoltaic solar cells that creates bumps
