The use of solar cells, devices that can convert sunlight into electricity, has grown exponentially over the past decades.

A new solar panel reaches up to 865 W, setting a historic record in power and efficiency for large-scale solar projects.

As a power source, the sun offers some impressive advantages over typical battery cells: It generates virtually limitless energy, requires no recharging, and is expected to last for another five ...

Researchers in China have built for the first time an inverted perovskite solar cell relying on a high-entropy hybrid perovskite material. The result is a device with an improved open-circuit voltage ...

Solar power has shifted from niche technology to a central pillar of the global energy system, and the pace of change is only ...

Source: “Lattice strain conversion suppresses ion migration to stabilize wide-bandgap perovskite solar cells,” by Yaru Du, Shanshan Du, Xiaobo Zhang, Hao Wang, Niqian Du, Xiaoyi Hou, Kaikai Liu, and ...

Favoring light emission instead of heat dissipation after light absorption.

JA Solar’s Bycium+ cell has achieved a significant breakthrough, reaching a new high in cell efficiency and setting a new record with an open-circuit voltage of 748.6mV – the highest in the commercial ...

The Chinese manufacturer said it developed a new circuit-model–based method to accurately detect hot-spot risks in TOPCon back-contact modules, overcoming limitations of the IEC 61215 approach caused ...

In a world dealing with environmental issues and energy shortages, the promise of clean, renewable energy from solar power is driving development of solar-cell technologies. This growth in the solar ...

Perovskite solar cells operated for months in low Earth orbit and tolerated radiation equivalent to decades in space, marking the most comprehensive orbital test of the technology.