Organic solar cells have long promised a future of lightweight, flexible energy harvesting, but their tendency to degrade ...

Imagine solar panels so thin and pliable that you can power all your devices by slapping them onto your house, car, smartphone, and knapsack. That tech could be coming soon, thanks to Oxford ...

A study conducted by Penn State University researchers has revealed that organic solar cells ...

(Nanowerk News) Perovskite photovoltaic devices have garnered much attention from both the academic and industrial R&D world because they combine high power conversion efficiencies and low-cost ...

These cells could be laminated onto various kinds of surfaces, such as the sails of a boat to provide power while at sea.

CSIRO achieved an efficiency rating as high as 15.5% for its printed flexible solar cell technology. Image: CSIRO. Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial ...

KIER achieves world’s highest efficiency of 23.64% with flexible perovskite/CIGS thin-film tandem solar cell The Korea Institute of Energy Research (President Yi Chang-keun, hereinafter referred to as ...

In a previous article, I wrote that if you were to start a solar business, the Nordic region would not be the obvious choice, and yet the challenges of doing so have created a thriving sector. But ...

Hiawatha Bray’s article about Active Surfaces’ solar technology ("Harnessing the sun: A Woburn startup’s flexible approach to solar cells could give the US industry a second chance," Business, Jan. 29 ...

Research reveals new type of back-contact solar cell design, using a perovskite material and tiny grooves embossed into plastic film, will enable scalable, low-cost manufacturing The elimination of ...