Researchers in China have investigated the impact of phosphorus diffusion gettering on industrial silicon heterojunction solar cell and have found that, with an optimized gas flow, higher efficiencies ...

In space, satellites face brutal temperature shifts from hot sunlight to freezing shadows. For ...

A research team from Fudan University has explored a novel optimization method for the transport layer in solar cells, ...

Solar energy plays a big role in the fight against climate change. As the world turns to solar power, concerns about the environmental impact of traditional solar panels continue to grow. Today’s most ...

Researchers have pushed all-perovskite tandem solar cells past the 30% efficiency threshold, a long-sought target that puts this emerging technology in direct competition with the best conventional ...

Researchers from the Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory ( PV-Lab ) in EPFL's School of Engineering and CSEM have developed a new ...

The new cell efficiency comes less than a month after the company achieved the previous record with 25.9% conversion efficiency. Image: Trina Solar. Chinese solar manufacturer Trinasolar has achieved ...

The work could ultimately have significant benefits for panel users. Scientists make breakthrough that could revolutionize solar panels: 'Among the highest efficiencies reported to date' first ...

The record was achieved on a 9cm2 solar cell. Image: CEA/Cherpin. Italian solar manufacturer 3Sun and French research firm CEA (Commissariat à l’énergie atomique in French) have achieved a 30.8% solar ...

The previous solar efficiency record has now been broken, and this one could have ...