Oct

31

Wet Processed Solar Cells Are More Highly Efficient

October 31, 2018 | Leave a Comment

Kanazawa University researchers have documented a new method for controlling the orientation of conducting molecules in organic solar cells that results in the enhanced light adsorption and performance of the cells. Solar cells are an alternate source of energy. A subtype of these, organic solar cells, make use of organic polymers inside the cell. Using […]

Oct

2

A New Synthesized Perovskite Solar Cell Developed

October 2, 2018 | Leave a Comment

Scientists from the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) believe they’ve found a winning formula in a new method to fabricate low-cost high-efficiency solar cells. Professor Yabing Qi and his team from OIST in collaboration with Professor Shengzhong Liu from Shaanxi Normal University, China, […]

Sep

13

New Solar Tech Harvests 85 Percent of Light

September 13, 2018 | Leave a Comment

Hokkaido University scientists have developed a photoelectrode that can harvest 85% of visible light. It is built in a 30 nanometers-thin semiconductor layer sandwiched between gold layers, converting light energy 11 times more efficiently than previous methods. The research team, led by Professor Hiroaki Misawa of the Research Institute for Electronic Science at Hokkaido University, […]

Sep

6

New Process May Create Higher Efficiency Solar Cells

September 6, 2018 | Leave a Comment

A team of semiconductor researchers based in France has used a boron nitride separation layer to grow indium gallium nitride (InGaN) solar cells that were then lifted off their original sapphire substrate and placed onto a glass substrate. The French team’s technique is the third major application for the hexagonal boron nitride lift-off technique, which […]

Jul

10

Breakthrough In Perovskite Solar Cells

July 10, 2018 | 1 Comment

University of Surrey researchers believe their new technique has produced the highest performing inverted perovskite solar cell ever recorded. Perovskite based cells are widely expected to be the next generation of solar cells, offering similar power conversion efficiency (PCE) performance, but at a much lower cost than today’s dominant crystalline silicon based solar cells. In […]

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