Researchers from the Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory (PV-Lab) in EPFL's School of Engineering and CSEM ...
The LEEMONS project is researching nanostructured silicon that uses low-energy electron multiplication (LEEM) to allow one ...
Silicon solar cells were supposed to be running out of headroom, yet a new device has pushed their performance to 27.81% efficiency and reset expectations for what a single-junction cell can do. That ...
As the price of silicon panels has continued to come down, we’ve reached the point where they’re a small and shrinking cost of building a solar farm. That means that it might be worth spending more to ...
DAS Solar and Hebei University have identified two types of pinholes in TOPCon solar cells: harmful recombinational pinholes, ...
Multicrystalline silicon remains the cornerstone of photovoltaic device production, benefitting from a balance between performance and cost. The manufacturing process typically involves directional ...
Nanocrystalline silicon solar cells represent a pivotal advancement in thin film technologies, offering a pathway towards enhanced energy conversion efficiencies and reduced manufacturing costs. The ...
Schematic of a perovskite solar cell. Source: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology ...
A joint research team led by Dr. Hee-Eun Song of the Photovoltaics Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (President Yi Chang-Keun, hereafter “KIER”) and Prof. Ka-Hyun Kim of ...