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The Next Wave Of Perovskite Solar Cell Innovation: See-Through Solar Windows

The global solar industry has been taking off like a rocket while relying primarily on silicon, a material first introduced back in 1954. Now a new wave of 21st century materials i...

Understanding solar panels

Since all power sources use electricity for control circuits (unless you burn wood to boil water and run a steam powered generator) it made sense to me. With the system I have inst...

Perovskite Solar Cells Will Make Solar Power Even Cheaper

The US startup Sofab is among the stakeholders pushing perovskite solar cell technology out of the laboratory and into the marketplace, offering improved supply chain stability alo...

35.5%! LONGi Once Again Breaks World Record for Crystalline Silicon-Perovskite Tandem Solar Cell Efficiency

At the 2026 Solar and Energy Storage Innovation Conference, LONGi officially announced that its independently developed crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell has achieve...

P3C is making solar modules from perovskite, a material that could replace silicon

The Gurugram-based company produces perovskite modules on glass and on flexible substrates and has had its cell efficiency certified by the National Institute of Solar Energy.

Contact-Making Process Improves Solar Cell Efficiency 

A metal contact process improves solar cell efficiency to 26.31% by reducing energy losses and supporting large-scale production.  Researchers from the Ningbo Institute of Material...

Carbon Dots Push Organic Solar Cells To 19.78 per cent

A fluorinated carbon dot transport layer helps organic solar cells reach a certified efficiency of 19.78 per cent while retaining 85 per cent of their performance after 1,800 hours...

ART-PV is stacking two solar cells on top of each other to push past silicon's limit

The IIT Bombay spinout has built a tandem cell combining perovskite with silicon and CdTe, and is setting up a pilot manufacturing line on campus with government funding.

China’s 1MW perovskite solar farm beats silicon system in industrial-scale test

A China-led team has cleared the last major hurdle in the race to commercialise the most promising alternative to conventional silicon solar technology, paving the way for the next...

Japan's newspaper-printed solar cells could turn almost any surface into a power generator

Fraunhofer ISE, Source Energy develop silicon PV modules for space satellites

The new technology is considered a more economical alternative to the solar cells based on group III-V semiconductors that are currently used in space applications. The post Fraunh...

Screen-Printed Perovskite Cells Reach 22.41 Per Cent In Open Air

A Nanjing Tech team has screen-printed every layer of a perovskite solar cell in ambient air, achieving 22.41 per cent efficiency without vacuum equipment or inert-atmosphere glove...

Engineers building Solar panels are using exact replicas of honeycombs made by Bees to ensure ...

Engineers have developed new solar panels inspired by bee honeycombs. This innovative design significantly improves sunlight absorption and power generation. The honeycomb structu...

A solar panel that rolls up, from a laboratory at IISc

ABX3 PV has shown flexible perovskite modules at national technology events, and describes itself as building the full manufacturing process rather than only the cell.

Shade-Resistant Solar Cells Retain 97% Efficiency After 2,000 Hours of Testing

realResearchers have developed solar cells that retain 97% of their efficiency under shaded conditions after 2,000 hours of continuous testing, according to a report. The achieveme...

Plug-in solar panels can be sold from today: I live in a flat but won't be buying them says HELEN CRANE

Plug-in solar panels could land on British shelves today - just in time for a grey, wet and overcast bank holiday weekend.

SolarWindow launches 0.85 mm-thick, self-adhesive solar film

SolarWindow has launched ElectroFlex, an ultra-thin, flexible, self-adhesive solar product for flat and curved surfaces. The new product features 24.4% cell efficiency and targets...

CS PowerTech Launches Best In Class PV HJT Solar Cell Factory

Jeffersonville, Indiana facility will include more than 1,200 employees that will strengthen U.S. manufacturing, supply-chain resilience, and energy dominance KITCHENER, Ontarioa a...

Plan for balcony photovoltaics

These systems will be used exclusively to meet the consumer’s own electricity needs.

Chinese solar company says its new cell has an efficiency of 35.5 percent

Chinese company LONGi has developed crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells with a 35.5 percent conversion efficiency.

Solar power plug-in panels

Plug-in solar panels are coming. Plug-in or so-called balcony-solar systems have become popular in Germany in recent years. Ten American st... read more...

Nanocrystal-cooled laser cells could enable mid-flight drone charging

A heat-managing receiver converted green light into electricity at 38.49% efficiency and powered an aircraft propeller in a stationary proof-of-concept test.

Zhuhai Semiconductor Veterans Pioneer Space Solar Cells: Hongjun New Energy HJT Modules Pass In-Orbit Verification on Co...

Hongjun New Energy, founded by SMIC veterans, achieves space-grade P-type heterojunction solar cell validation aboard a computing satellite, demonstrating semiconductor-DNA approac...

First plug-in solar panels achieve UK compliance ahead of retail launch

British-owned solar firm secures compliant listings for four products, as plans to allow sale of plug-in solar panels this month advance