PETE Devices Could Harvest Solar’s Wasted Heat
Scientists working at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES) have improved an innovative solar-energy device to be … [continued]
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Organic Solar Cells Receiving Big Boost In Efficiency Thanks To ‘Evolution-Inspired’ Algorithm
In a potentially breakthrough discovery, researchers at Northwestern University have designed a new type of organic solar cell that will … [continued]
Ultra-Efficient Side-Illuminated Solar Cell Architecture Created By Researchers
A revolutionary new design for a concentrator solar cell has been created by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the … [continued]
New High-Efficiency Quantum Dot Solar Cells Developed
The first solar cell with an external quantum efficiency (EQE) that exceeds 100 percent for photons with energies in … [continued]
Solar Cells Could Receive Huge Boost in Efficiency Thanks to Next-Gen Antireflection Coatings
Solar cell efficiency is set to greatly increase in the next few years thanks to newly created next-gen antireflection … [continued]
Inner Workings of Solar Cell: New Insight into How Solvent Mixtures Affect the Structure of…
By controlling how the ‘mixing’ occurs between acceptor and donor layers (solar cell domains) in polymer-based solar cells, efficiency … [continued]
New Study on Material Constraints of Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (Finding: Not a Problem)
As you may have noticed in the story on the huge NREL study just published showing that 80% of … [continued]
New Mathematical Approach Could Simulate Materials for Solar Cells and LEDs
Some more cool cleantech news from the MIT News Office: A multidisciplinary team of researchers at MIT and in … [continued]
All-Carbon Solar Cell Harnesses Infrared Light
Here’s some fun and exciting news from researchers at MIT about a new type of photovoltaic device that can … [continued]
Solar Tech Improvements; Solar Project News; Solar Manufacturing News… (Solar Energy News Roundup)
Other than the solar energy news we’ve already posted on, here’s some more solar energy news from the last … [continued]
