The Best Is Yet To Come: New Tandem Silicon-Perovskite Solar Cell Sets Record
The leading Chinese solar firm LONGi breaks another conversion record with its new silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell.
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JA Solar Set For Mass Production Of High Efficiency Solar Cells
The new 6×10 PERCIUM solar modules, based on new high efficiency solar cells from will launch into commercial production in just a few days.
Inexpensive Solar Cell Coating May Lead To Big Increases In Solar Cell Efficiency, 1 Photon…
A potentially very important development has just been announced in the field of solar cell technology. Researchers at MIT have successfully demonstrated a technique that allows a photon to knock two electrons loose, rather than only the usual one electron. The demonstration opens the door to solar cells with efficiencies … [continued]
Grid Parity In Sight For New Low-Cost Solar Cell
That light barreling down upon us from the end of the tunnel is solar power as cheap as fossil fuels. The latest breakthrough is a low-cost solar cell manufactured with the help of Gallium Arsenide, a compound of the “poor metal” gallium and arsenic. It definitely does not sound like something … [continued]
Solar News Link Bonanza (New Solar Panels, Warranty Increases, Bill Clinton to Solar Industry…)
From Bill Clinton at Solar Power International 2012, to future solar growth projections, to a ton of new solar panels from pretty much all of the solar panel leaders, there’s been a bunch of solar news this month. […]
Solar Cells with High Efficiency & Significantly Reduced Production Cost within Grasp, Thanks to Newly…
New solar cell coating processes and thin layer systems for cell production are being developed by researchers from Fraunhofer that will lead to significant reductions in the price of solar cells. The researchers, from the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST in Braunschweig, will showcase some … [continued]
Solexel, Solar Startup, Has Raised $150 Million in Investments for Its Thin-Silicon Technology
Solexel, a thin-silicon solar technology startup, is aiming to bring its 20%-efficient photovoltaic modules to the commercial market by 2014. At a cost of $0.42 per watt, such a high efficiency for this technology would certainly have its uses. Funding a solar startup isn’t cheap, though. Just last week … [continued]
40% Efficient UV Nanotech PV Cells for Space Receive $1 Million Funding
Researchers at the University of Arkansas, and Arkansas State, have been developing solar cells that use alternatives to silicone for space applications. Projected efficiencies are over 40%. New funding has just been announced.
Low Cost Solar Power Gets $145 Million Boost from SunShot Initiative
The Department of Energy is soldiering on with a new $145 million round of SunShot Initiative funding for high efficiency, low cost solar energy technologies, despite the recent bankruptcy of one of its biggest past awardees, Solyndra. The money will go to sixty-nine projects in twenty-four states. The investment of … [continued]
Nanoantenna Surprise Discovery Could Make Solar Cells More Efficient
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.
