Scientists have set a new solar-to-grid system conversion efficiency record by achieving a 31.25 percent net efficiency rate. The old 1984 record of 29.4 percent was toppled Jan. 31 on SES's "Serial ...

A group of researchers from Japan and Germany may have conjured up a “dream technology” that could one day supercharge solar energy conversion to levels around 130 per cent, compared with the sub-30 ...

LONGi Green Energy headquarters in Shaanxi, China. Image: LONGi Green Energy Major Chinese solar manufacturer LONGi has developed a crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell with a power ...

A research team from China’s Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech) has developed and constructed a novel anthraquinone-based solar redox flow battery (SRFB) device. The system consists of redox ...

Nitride semiconductors have emerged as pivotal materials in solar energy conversion due to their versatile electronic properties and the opportunity they offer to exploit earth‐abundant elements.

Researchers have developed a simple, low-cost, and environmentally sound method for fabricating a highly-efficient selective solar absorber (SSA) to convert sunlight into heat for energy-related ...

Solar power technologies, which use solar cells to convert sunlight to electricity or storable fuels, are gaining momentum in a world looking beyond fossil fuels for its energy needs. The dark bluish ...

(Nanowerk News) In a study published March 9 in Nature Chemistry ("Combined biomass valorization and hydrogen production in a photoelectrochemical cell"), University of Wisconsin-Madison chemistry ...

Sharp Corporation has achieved a conversion efficiency of 32.65% in a lightweight, flexible, practically sized solar module developed as part of the “Research and Development of Solar Cells for Use in ...