Scientists in the Netherlands proposed a new testing scheme for recycling silicon from end-of-life photovoltaic panels. Their ...

Solar panel technology has been slow to evolve, so it's exciting to see new research advancements. Scientists develop ...

REC Silicon is shutting a polysilicon plant in Moses Lake, Washington, that has struggled to achieve customers’ quality requirements. The plant is one of only a few in the US that manufactures the ...

The world's first self-charging energy device integrates supercapacitors and solar cells for efficient solar energy capture ...

For a long time, the solar panel market was dominated by China because of that country's control of the silicon supply chain. But the solar-panel tides may be turning, as Japan has created a solar ...

Finally, the cell bears an antireflective coating, which ensures that photons—the particles of sunlight needed to generate solar power—are absorbed by the silicon layers and not reflected away.

Although the efficiency of their graphene-on-silicon solar cell is currently quite low, the researchers envisage that it can be improved by optimizing the conductivity and transparency of the ...

Energy solutions provider Qcells has set a world record by achieving 28.6% efficiency in tandem solar cells on a full-area ...

The efficiency of silicon solar cells has been regarded as theoretically limited to 29.4%. Here, the authors show that the sunlight directionality and the cell’s angular response can be ...

Researchers at IIT Bombay achieve 26% efficiency with bifacial perovskite solar cells by optimizing tilt angle and albedo.

A solar cell is made of two types of semiconductors, called p-type and n-type silicon. The p-type silicon is produced by adding atoms—such as boron or gallium—that have one less electron in their ...