By protecting the surface during heating, the team reduced the chance that tiny flaws would grow into long-term failures.

A new kind of ‘camera’ is poking at the invisible world of the human body – and it’s made from the same weird crystals that once shook up solar energy. Researchers at Northwestern University and ...

Solar power has long been seen as a clean alternative to fossil fuels. But its everyday use still faces hurdles. Traditional panels are bulky, stiff, and completely opaque. That makes them hard to fit ...

Engineers at UNSW Sydney have developed a way to monitor solar cells at a microscopic level while they are operating to ...

Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have created a molecule that naturally forms p/n junctions, structures that are ...

Professor Yoke Khin Yap and his research group are improving the efficiency of solar cells one quantum dot at a time. × To sustainably power our digital future, the world needs more — and more ...

Solar energy has long been considered to have great potential and solar panels based on silicon have been on the market for over 30 years. But first-generation silicon solar panels are at the end of ...