This synergy optimizes energy conversion, surpassing the performance of conventional cells. With an efficiency of 28.6%, this device sets a new world record.

Conventional solar cells have fundamental limitations in output voltage and conversion efficiency. A phenomenon called the bulk photovoltaic effect, which has attracted much attention in recent ...

Yoshiki Niihori and Masaaki Mitsui highlighted recent advances in converting visible and near-infrared light through ...

Due to its ubiquitous availability and inexhaustibility, solar energy is regarded as one of the most promising clean renewable energy sources in the run to achieve carbon neutrality and energy ...

A new solar array that incorporates bifacial solar modules (those that absorb the sun’s energy from the top side and the bottom side) was installed outside the Institute of Energy Conversion in 2021, ...

Solar power technologies, which use solar cells to convert sunlight to electricity or storable fuels, are gaining momentum in a world looking beyond fossil fuels for its energy needs. The dark bluish ...

Photosynthetic systems, particularly those involving photosystems I and II (PSI and PSII), are at the forefront of research aimed at harnessing solar energy for various applications, including ...

What they found was astoundingly efficient light-to-energy conversion. More importantly, the laser spectroscopy experiments enabled them to show why this efficient conversion was possible.

In the late 1930s, Telkes studied energy conversion for Westinghouse Electric before joining the Solar Energy Conversion Project, a research unit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1939.

In collaboration with Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, the company says its solar panel achieved 25% conversion efficiency – the percentage of solar energy shining on a ...