Active Surfaces says its thin, flexible solar collectibles can be attached not just to roofs, but walls, tents, backpacks, ...

And the lower cost of producing these lightweight cells, printed on flexible plastic, means that manufacturing can remain in ...

First Solar's thin-film technology provides several advantages in the current market. Firstly, it performs better than traditional silicon-based panels in high-temperature and high-humidity ...

Photovoltaics (PVs), devices that can convert sunlight into electrical power, are becoming increasingly widespread and more ...

TOPCon combines the benefits of crystalline silicon and amorphous silicon thin-film into one high-power hybrid solar cell. Unlike the more complex HJT (heterojunction technology), TOPCon only ...

UNSW researchers have achieved a world record energy conversion efficiency of 13.2% for high-bandgap kesterite (CZTS) solar cells with a laboratory scale cell that had been enhanced with hydrogen.

A Trick of Light: Researchers Turn Silicon Into Direct Bandgap Semiconductor ... improved the performance of kesterite (CZTSSe) thin-film solar cells. They developed a new method for doping ...

Flexible perovskite solar cells are promising for lightweight and versatile applications but their sensitivity to humidity and temperature poses a challenge to long-term durability. To address this, ...

EneCoat Technologies, a Kyoto University PV technology spinoff, announced it achieved a power conversion efficiency of 30.4% in a four-terminal perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell developed in ...