Darth Vaders dark eyes inspired a new nanotechnology-based black silicon that makes solar cells more efficient. The resultant ...

Novel design strategies provide a step towards more efficient and stable perovskite–perovskite–silicon solar cells ...

Halide perovskites—already a focus of major research into efficient, low-cost solar cells—have been shown to handle light ...

Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed a 2D/3D tin halide perovskite (THP) solar cell with a certified efficiency of 16.65% and peak performance of 17.13%, maintaining stable ...

Quantum dots are nanoscale semiconductor crystals, typically ranging from 2 to 10 nanometers in diameter. At this scale, the materials exhibit unique optical and electronic properties due to the ...

The study, published in the Nature Nanotechnology journal, investigated solar cells with three layers also known as triple-junction cells. The technology used two layers of perovskite, which is an ...

A research team from China's Yangzhou University has investigated how four rear treatment techniques can improve passivation performance, contact, and electrical performance in TOPCon solar cells and ...

Quantum effects lasting just 2 trillionths of a second discovered in easily manufactured perovskite films could enable ultra-fast light technology and practical quantum devices.