Solar Technology & PV R&D News

A new tool created by scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) shows the very best places around Australia that could be utilized to develop new wind or solar farms.

Organic solar cells could be made even greener by switching over the solvents utilized in their manufacture. Today's toxic chlorinated solvents can be changed by plant-derived options without influencing the resulting solar cells' light-capturing efficiency, KAUST researchers have actually revealed.

Scientists from South-Africa's University of the Western Cape, University of Missouri and also Argonne National Laboratory have actually created a new way of boosting the stability and also performance of perovskites.

The suggestion is as uncomplicated as it is basic: If I can collect both direct sunlight along with its reflection through the rear end of my solar cell, this need to enhance the yield of energy the cell creates.

Rooftop solar panels come to be a lot more energy efficient if placed precisely

Though plants can act as a source of food, oxygen and décor, they're rarely taken into consideration to be a good source of electricity. But by collecting electrons normally carried within plant cells, scientists can produce electricity as part of a "green," biological solar cell.

New materials that can both harvest and also emit light deal interesting possibility for modern technologies that vary from solar cells to television and display screens. In a new research, scientists have actually developed a new way of enhancing the stability and performance of a particular kind of these materials, called perovskites. A paper based upon the research study has actually been released in ACS Applied Electronic Materials.

Operating in consortium with CSEM, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Fraunhofer ISE, as well as the University of Stuttgart, Meyer Burger is looking into tandem solar cells and developing next-generation solar modules These activities center around the automation of the new technologies, or large scale production of solar cells with efficiencies of more than 30 percent

Organic photovoltaics (OPVs), solar technologies based on organic semiconductors, have actually revealed excellent promise both for the scalable provision of clean energy and also for the development of solar-powered wearable electronics. Regardless of their benefits, organic solar cells suffer from the so-called recombination loss, a loss of photocurrent resulting from the recombination of photocarriers.

Scientists from China's East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai University, Donghua University and Soochow University have actually fabricated an upside down perovskite solar cell with remarkable charge transport.

Scientists from Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University of Technology as well as TNO (partner in Solliance) have actually made an integrated solar-assisted water-splitting system with a flow electrochemical cell and a monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell.

MIT engineers have actually established ultralight fabric solar cells that can swiftly and also quickly turn any type of surface into a power source.

A study team led by Prof. Ge Ziyi at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has actually established an alkoxy-substituted asymmetric conjugated molecule as well as doped it right into the PM6: BTP-eC9-based binary organic solar cells (OSCs) as a 3rd component, leading to high-efficiency ternary OSCs with a power conversion performance (PCE) of over 18.1%.

Flow batteries (FBs) are assuring in large-scale energy storage because of their high protection and efficiency. Amongst them, aqueous organic flow batteries (AOFBs) that utilize structural tunable as well as eco-friendly redox-active molecules are getting raised attention.

Clean, lasting energy options are essential to fulfill the ever-increasing energy demands of the human population. High efficiency solar cells are promising candidates to reduce carbon emissions as well as achieve carbon neutrality.