Crystalline-silicon solar panels are efficient, reliable, and dominate the solar-panel market. However, new third-gen solar ...

Chinese researchers have introduced an innovative solar cell that could serve as an alternative to traditional photovoltaic ...

A UK research team used electroluminescence imaging to inspect 167 PV installations comprising a total of 5 million solar ...

Many are familiar with so-called photovoltaic cells, or solar panels, found on things like spacecraft, rooftops, and handheld calculators. The cells are made of semiconductor materials like those ...

Today, most solar cells employ p–n junctions, leveraging the photovoltaic effect that occurs at the interface of different materials. However, such designs are constrained by the Shockley ...

Recycling PV material and advances in nanotechnology that increase solar-cell efficiency could both help boost supply, but perhaps finding material substitutes that exist in greater abundance ...

Solar panels are made up of photovoltaic cells, or PV cells. These cells comprise a semiconductor that absorbs some of the photons that hit it and reflects others. Semiconductors are important ...

Aiko Solar, the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics partner for 30% efficiency with interdigitated back contact (IBC ...

The research team at KRICT optimized its in-house material synthesis methods, film uniformity by scalable processes, and ...

Chinese module manufacturer Trina Solar has achieved a power conversion efficiency of 25.9% for a bifacial bifacial industrial tunnel oxide passivated contact (i-TOPCon) solar cell. The cell ...

A team of international scientists associated with the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed the ...

The bulk photovoltaic (BPV) effect is an uncommon phenomenon that may enable certain materials to outperform the conventional p–n junctions used in solar cells. A firm understanding of the ...