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.

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

A team of researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore has created a perovskite solar mini module, which they claim has the highest power conversion efficiency of any perovskite-based ...

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 ...

A team of researchers has created a perovskite solar mini module that has recorded the highest power conversion efficiency of any perovskite-based device larger than 10 cm2. A team of researchers at ...

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 ...

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 ...

Specialist gallium arsenide (GaAs) PV manufacturer Alta Devices, a subsidiary of Hanergy Group has achieved a new solar cell conversion efficiency record of 28.9%, which was certified by NREL ...