Imagine a car whose windows and sunroof can help top up its battery while parked under the sun, or a pair of smart glasses whose lenses can harvest light to power built-in electronics.

One of the hindrances to large-scale solar adoption, especially in cities, is where to install the chunky panels. Rooftops?

In a new study published in Research, researchers from Northwestern Polytechnical University and collaborating institutions report a molecular strategy that addresses this problem from within the ...

Faiz Mandani, a Rice doctoral alum and co-author on the study, helped develop a degradation unit to simulate exposure to heat and irradiance in order to test how devices built from the new perovskite ...

A commuter steps off a bus in midday heat, phone already at 12 percent, and no wall socket in sight. The scene is familiar in ...

Some Thoughts on Photovoltaics and the Australia Prize. from Martin Green and Stuart Wenham. Martin Green "Photovoltaics" is a bit of a mouthful but describes the process where su ...

Kolkata: Marking a major milestone in India's clean energy mission, the country's first-ever indigenous Plasma Enhanced ...

An international team led by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has used ionic salt for the electron transport layer of a perovskite solar cell to improve device stability and ...

Researchers from the University of Arkansas in the United States have fabricated a graphene-based solar cell that can be used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The device was developed in the ...

KAUST developed a cooling technology that improves the longevity and power output of a solar cell. Image: KAUST. As solar projects spread across the world, it is no longer uncommon to see a project ...