Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the ...

Solar cells, devices that convert sunlight into electricity, are now widely used in many countries. While most existing solar ...

How do organic solar cells work on the inside? The answer lies in structures far too small to see—and difficult to access ...

Scientists are always pushing the boundaries of solar cell efficiency – how much of the available sunshine gets turned into ...

Energy can never be created or destroyed. That's basic Physics 101. You simply cannot create energy out of thin air. Yet ...

MERCED, Calif. -- UC Merced has partnered with NASA on a unique project: creating spray-on solar cells that will allow them to make solar panels in space. "All of our energy in space comes from solar ...

Engineers at UNSW Sydney have developed a way to monitor solar cells at a microscopic level while they are operating to discover exactly how damage caused by ultraviolet light can be naturally ...

Dr. Shen Xinyi (center) holds his certified all-vacuum-deposited perovskite solar cell with Prof. Lin Yen-Hung (left) and Dr. Fion Yeung (right). Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and ...

Future lunar bases could be powered by solar cells made on-site from melted moon dust. Building items on the moon, using materials that are already there, would be more practical than shipping them ...