Designers of solar cells may soon be setting their sights higher, as a discovery by a team of researchers has revealed a class of materials that could be better at converting sunlight into energy than ...

A new six-junction solar cell, developed by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), converts 47.1% of incident light into electricity when combined with optical concentration. Indications thus ...

Scientists have created a solar cell thinner than a human hair with a conversion efficiency of nearly 50 percent, more than double the efficiency of devices currently sold on the commercial market and ...

China’s Trina Solar has set a new world record for the conversion efficiency of a certain type of solar module, the company said in a statement on Monday. In laboratory tests, Trina’s ...

Achieved with Triple-Junction Compound Semiconductor Solar Cell. Sharp Corporation has achieved the world’s highest solar cell conversion efficiency (*1) of 36.9% (*2) using a triple-junction compound ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have revealed that a type of salt can improve the efficiency of perovskite solar cells. Called guanidinium thiocyanate ...

TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced it has established yet another world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) research cell conversion ...

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the University of Colorado have collaborated to develop a high-efficiency dual-junction solar cell, which includes a thin multi-quantum-well ...

LONGi Solar’s module shipments for 2020 reached a record 24.53GW. Image: LONGi Solar. LONGi Solar has set a new record conversion efficiency for an n-type monocrystalline bifacial TOPCon cell of 25.09 ...

Researchers have revealed a class of materials that could be better at converting sunlight into energy than those currently used in solar arrays. Their findings show how a ferroelectric insulator can ...