It bonds with its silicon neighbor atoms, but one electron is not involved in bonding. Instead, it is free to move inside the silicon structure. A solar cell consists of a layer of p-type silicon ...

An international team led by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has used ionic salt for the electron ...

The breakthrough centers on replacing the commonly used fullerene C 60 layer within the perovskite solar cell’s electron ...

Solar cells based on perovskites, materials with a characteristic crystal structure first unveiled in the mineral calcium ...

Chinese researchers have achieved a key breakthrough in the development of flexible solar cells. These scientists have ...

Converting sunlight into electricity is the task of photovoltaic solar cells, but nearly half the light that reaches a flat ...

A collaborative research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Hong Kong Polytechnic ...

Over the past few decades, solar cells have become increasingly widespread, with a growing number of individuals and ...

Scientists at the University of Queensland have set a new world record for solar cell efficiency using an environmentally ...

the structure was less efficient than the typical silicone panels and would degrade under humid conditions. "Silicon solar cells are great because they are very efficient and can last for a very ...

Researchers from the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology in India have proposed a new copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cell structure using tungsten disulfide (WS 2 ...