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New Method to Process Thin-Film Materials

Next-generation solar techniques boast that, as thin films, they can offer flexibility and versatility that you simply don’t get with a lump of silicon

15 Feb 2018

Developing Solar Thin Films for 'Smart Windows'

Mixed-halide perovskite thin films are ideal ‘smart windows' (capable of adjustable transparency, color change & solar power generation) development.

12 Feb 2018

Optimized Laser Patterning Reduces ‘Dead Area’ in Solar Cells

New research by CHEOPS has found a way to reduce the ‘dead area’ or photovoltaic cells by applying an enhanced laser patterning process.

6 Feb 2018

OPES Solutions Creates Super Light Solar Module

OPES Solutions has continued to secure its position as a leading manufacturer of off-grid solar modules, by creating a super light system of photovoltaics.

6 Feb 2018

Scientists Study the Stages of Perovskite Formation

Research about the sequential deposition reaction used to build perovskite solar panels, offering a fundamental understanding of perovskite formation.

5 Feb 2018

Magnetic Smart Window Could Improve Building Efficiency

A new smart window capable of altering its light permeability at the touch of a button, can also be simultaneously used for light harvesting.

18 Jan 2018

Microwires Used For Enhancing Efficiency of Solar Fuels

Researchers have made major efficiency enhancements to the technology used for producing solar fuels.

16 Jan 2018

Study Proposes Standardizing Measurements of Perovskite Aging

EPFL researchers have created a data-driven proposal for regulating the measurements of perovskite solar cell stability and degradation. Published in Nature Energy, the research focusses on creating consensus in the field and overcoming one of the big obstacles on the way to marketing perovskite photovoltaics.

2 Jan 2018

Working Towards Creation of Non-Electric Battery to Store Solar Energy

For years materials chemists have been attempting to develop a new type of battery that is capable of storing solar or other light-sourced energy in chemical bonds instead of electrons, one that will discharge the energy on demand as heat rather than as electricity – addressing the necessity for long-standing, stable, efficient storage of solar energy.

20 Dec 2017

Researchers Identify Large Non-Traditional Sites for Future Solar Farms

There is a tradeoff when expansive solar farms are built on agricultural land: farmland vanishes, perhaps forever, in return for progress in the promising renewable energy sector.

20 Dec 2017