Solar Cells Made With Layered Oxide Heterostructures Are Ultra-Efficient
A new class of materials, known as layered oxide heterostructures, made by stacking single atomic layers of oxides, can be used to create a...
Coloured, Transparent Solar Cells on Buildings Convert 12% of Incoming Sun Energy
Oxford Photovoltaics received £2m grant to develop colourful, transparent solar cells, which can be placed on building facades, making the whole building capable to...
NASA Uses World’s Largest Solar Sail for Asteroid-Exploring Missions
In 2014, NASA will be launching the world’s largest solar sail ever built. Sunjammer, the solar sail spacecraft, will act as a test bed...
Nanowire-Embedded Quantum Dots Break Solar Cell Efficiency Records
An international team of scientists from Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and the US established a process through which quantum dots can self-assemble at optimal locations...
Solar Power Systems: Regular Subject to Fraud
The Queensland Fraud Squad in Australia arrested a “pastor” and his wife, for a scam involving solar panels, after more than 150 complaints were...
Low-Temp Meltable Alloy Increases Solar Cell Efficiency
The field of solar power and photovoltaic cells has developed enormously over the past decade, providing opportunities for even greater innovations.
One of these is...
Super Efficient Nanoscale Wireless Devices Produced
Don't let anyone tell you any differently, but size does matter. This is just as true when we take a look at how computing...
Delaware Solar Fuel Generator Advances One Step Further
A few quick notes about hydrogen. As an element, it is the simplest, lightest, and most abundant on this planet that we call home....
Nano-Antennae Promise 70% Solar Efficiency
Modern photovoltaic solar panels are not very efficient converting solar energy into electricity. They need to convert solar energy, which is inherently alternating current...
Switzerland Building Floating Labs Powered by Solar Energy
Viteos SA, a Swiss energy company, in conjunction with project development company Nolaris are planning construction of three floating laboratories on the Lake Neuchâtel,...
