This big step was possible because of two important discoveries: Albert Einstein explained how light can produce electricity—called the photoelectric effect. He won the Nobel Prize for this work. Jan ...

Perovskite semiconductors efficiently convert sunlight into electrical energy; they are also inexpensive and extremely ...

Imagine a display that harvests ambient light when it is not actively in use, offsetting some of its own energy consumption. The materials physics shows that this is possible, the same semiconductor ...

Perovskite solar cells are a promising alternative to traditional silicon solar panels but have poor durability. Professor Ted Sargent, Research associate professor Bin Chen, Postdoctoral fellows ...

Ubiquitous Energy and Michigan State University researchers have created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any window or sheet of glass (like your smartphone's screen) into a ...

Researchers have developed a perovskite-organic tandem solar cell that achieves 26.4 percent efficiency. Unlike rigid silicon modules, the lightweight design can generate power on curved or flexible ...

Researchers in China have developed an inverted perovskite solar cell approaching the 27% efficiency threshold. The device incorporates a specially designed self-assembled monolayer that passivates ...

The proposed tandem features a wide bandgap antimony-doped Cs2AgBiBr6 (specifically Cs2AgBi0.75Sb0.25Br6) top cell and a narrow bandgap formamidinium tin iodide (FASnI3) bottom device. Researchers at ...

Energy can never be created or destroyed. That's basic Physics 101. You simply cannot create energy out of thin air. Yet researchers at Kyushu University in Japan say they have developed a technology ...