In the second interview of a series, Arvind Shah, a professor at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, told pv magazine about the challenges facing amorphous silicon cells. He said the tech could ...

A group led by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan has created a material based on fullerene indanones (FIDO), which promises to improve the durability of next-generation solar cells. Durability ...

A research team including scientits from the laboratory of nanomaterials at the Skoltech Center for Photonics and Quantum Materials in Moscow, Estonia’s Taltech University and the German Aerospace ...

Optical sensing based on plasmonic effect has been applied in many areas over the last three decades 1,2. This technology has been demonstrated for material identification 3, food quality assurance 4, ...

A new approach to producing thin-film amorphous solar cells may enable products that deliver higher efficiency at a lower cost than today’s silicon-based solar panels. The latest automotive-grade ...

An example of such a cell is that from United Solar Ovonic LLC. It uses three layers of amorphous silicon created so that each has a different bandgap energy. The different bandgaps let each layer ...

Fine-tuning the thermal conductivity of amorphous silicon used in technologies such as solar cells and image sensors should become much easier thanks to the computational topology and machine-learning ...

A new review highlights how disordered nanomaterials outperform crystals in solar-powered hydrogen production, CO? reduction, and pollutant degradation. (Nanowerk News) Photocatalysis—using sunlight ...

Sunlight not only can be used to generate electricity, but also hydrogen. Hydrogen is a climate-neutral fuel that stores energy chemically and releases it again when needed, either directly via ...