Nanowires Could Potentially Double the Power of Solar Cells
Nanowire-based solar cells are being developed by a startup in Massachusetts, Bandgap Engineering, in the hopes of lowering costs while increasing power of solar...
Nano-Engineered Super Thin and Flexible Solar Cells
Solar powered technologies might increase in number if nanotechnological developments from University of Texas, prove effective.
This will become possible if the Team of scientists...
Scientists Studying How Organic Photovoltaics Could Charge Our Devices
Charging the Li-ion battery of your favorite electronic device, might just have become that much easier. According to scientists at University of Warwick, an...
History of Solar Power: The Key To The Future Lies In The Past
As the days go by, we keep hearing more and more about greenhouse gases, depleting ozone layer, climate change, global warming. It seems like...
New Flower-Like Germanium Sulfide Structures Could Improve Batteries, Solar Cells
New flower-like structures, made from germanium sulfide (GeS), have the potential to be the next-best-thing in the field of energy storage and solar cells.
The...
Satellite Powered by Triple Junction Solar Cells to be Launched in 2015
Emcore, a company that has successfully supplied primary power to more than 100 satellites since 2001, announced the signing of their latest contract on...
The Fate of Thin-Film Solar Panels
Last week, the Chinese energy company Hanergy announced their purchase of Miasole, a thin-film solar company, based in the Silicon Valley. Although experts in...
Influence of Solvent Mixtures on The Structure of Organic Solar Cells
Physicists from North Carolina State University claim that by controlling the way “mixing” occurs between the solar cell domains, we can boost their efficiency.
According...
Economical Anti-Reflection Coating Increases Solar Cell Efficiency By 3%
Brisbane Materials of Australia has recently developed a 110-nm thick anti-reflection coating with refractive index of 1.25 that they claim to be the most...
Spinning Conical Solar Cells Increase Output Twenty-Fold
V3Solar has launched an innovative design to the conventional flat solar cells resulting to a twenty-fold increase in its output, owing to its concentrator...
