Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the ...

Research on organic solar cells has been conducted for a long time. Recent advancements in understanding their molecular structures are now paving the way for the development of highly efficient solar ...

Solar cells, devices that convert sunlight into electricity, are now widely used in many countries. While most existing solar ...

How do organic solar cells work on the inside? The answer lies in structures far too small to see—and difficult to access ...

A high power conversion efficiency of 26.4% has been achieved for tandem solar cells that consist of a wide-bandgap perovskite cell and an organic cell. This feat was made possible through an ...

A research team at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon has demonstrated how a classic technique can be repurposed to measure the ...

The research advanced the durability of perovskite solar cells without compromising their exceptional efficiency, moving closer to a practical, low-cost alternative to silicon-based photovoltaics.

Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Yonsei University have fabricated a high-efficiency and high-stability organic-inorganic hybrid solar cell. The ...

In HJT cells, an n-type crystalline silicon (c-Si) wafer is sandwiched between intrinsic amorphous silicon (i-a-Si:H) layers. The front is coated with n-type microcrystalline silicon (μc-Si:H), while ...

Dr. David Moore painting perovskite onto a solar cell. Credit: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Solar holds great promise as a clean energy solution, as the sun is an incredibly abundant ...