Solar Technology & PV R&D News

Effective synthesis of perovskite visible-light-absorbing semiconductor material
Narrow-gap semiconductors with the capacity to utilize visible light have amassed significant rate of interest thanks to their convenience.
May 11, 2021 // Technology, Japan, solar cells, Asia, perovskite, semiconductor material, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Kyushu University, Kazuhiko Maeda, Katsuro Hayashi
Significant development in lithium-air battery development
Research led by the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with Johnson Matthey PLC and also Loughborough University, is making substantial progression in the advancement of stable and also useful electrolytes for lithium-oxygen batteries.
May 7, 2021 // Technology, Storage, lithium-air battery, Loughborough University, University of Liverpool, Johnson Matthey, Alex Neale, Pooja Goddard, Enrico Petrucco
India, Israel, UAE Indicator Maiden Trilateral Trade Agreement
At a recent event arranged by the International Federation of Indo-Israel Chambers of Commerce (IFIICC) to talk about the ongoing service cooperations being gone after via IFIICC's leadership across fields, India, Israel as well as the UAE authorized their initial trilateral contract.
May 7, 2021 // Technology, India, Asia, Israel, UAE, Ecoppia, Abraham Accords, IFIICC, Reuven Rivlin
'Molecular glue' makes perovskite solar cells significantly extra trustworthy in time
A research study group from Brown University has made a significant action towards improving the long-lasting reliability of perovskite solar cells, an emerging clean energy technology.
May 7, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cells, perovskite, North America, Brown University, Nitin Padtur
Scientists report brand-new synapse-like phototransistor
Scientists at the UNITED STATE Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) established an advancement in energy-efficient phototransistors. Such gadgets might eventually help computer systems procedure visual info extra like the human mind and also be utilized as sensors crazes like self-driving cars.
May 5, 2021 // Technology, USA, NREL, North America, Joseph Luther, metal-halide perovskites, Jeffrey Blackburn
Closing know modern semiconductor solar cells
A synthetic approach that improves absorber layers in perovskite solar cells might help them accomplish their full potential as well as draw closer to the performance of leading gallium arsenide tools.
May 5, 2021 // Technology, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, solar cells, KAUST, Abdullah Alsalloum
Barcelona Establishes Solar Pavement at a Historic Square
The Barcelona City Council just recently revealed that it is moneying the advancement of a 50-square-meter pilot project at Plaça de Les Glòries Catalanes, a historic square, for examining the feasibility of PV-paving technology which will be supplied by Spain's Sorigué and Hungary-based Plati. The project won the metropolitan obstacle 'Generator sidewalks', which looked for innovative services for creating renewable resource making use of city facilities.
May 5, 2021 // Technology, Spain, Europe, Barcelona, Eloi Badia, Plaça de Les Glòries Catalanes
Scientists develop compact on-chip tool for spotting electric-field waveforms with attosecond time resolution
Recognizing how light waves oscillate in time as they engage with products is essential to understanding light-driven energy transfer in products, such as solar cells or plants. Because of the remarkably broadband at which light waves oscillate, nevertheless, scientists have yet to establish a compact tool with adequate time resolution to directly record them.
May 4, 2021 // Technology, MIT, Phillip Donnie Keathley, DESY, Peter Hommelhoff
'Twisting' atomic materials might convert light into electricity
A pair of physicists at the University of California, Riverside, are aiming to convert light falling on atomically thin semiconductor materials into power, having actually obtained more than $582,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of the Army.
May 4, 2021 // Technology, USA, North America, University of California, Riverside, Tania Paskova, Gabor
Combining solar panels and also lamb grazing boosts land productivity, research locates
Land performance could be greatly boosted by incorporating sheep grazing and also solar energy production on the same land, according to brand-new study by Oregon State University researchers.
May 4, 2021 // Technology, Plants, USA, Oregon State University, North America, Alyssa Andrew, Serkan Ates
Renewable energy resources: Heading in the direction of large-scale thermal storage systems
High-temperature technologies make it possible for electrothermal storage space systems for large amounts of energy from renewable sources.
May 4, 2021 // Technology, Storage, Thermal, Germany, Europe, KIT, Thomas Wetzel, Klarissa Niedermeier, Alfons Weisenburger, Walter Tromm
Toledo Uni Scientists Make 6.4% Effective Antimony Selenide Solar Cell
In a paper entitled 'Influence of Post-selenization Temperature Level on the Performance of Substrate-Type Sb2Se3 Solar Cells', published in the peer-reviewed journal ACS Publications (whose parent organisation is American Chemical Society), scientists working at the University of Toledo in the USA have actually developed a 6.43%-efficient solar cell utilizing antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) films with favourable crystalline properties.
Apr 30, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cell, university of toledo, North America, efficiency
Hydrogen in crossbreed perovskites is less innocent than it looks
Researchers in the products department in UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering have uncovered a significant reason for constraints to effectiveness in a brand-new generation of solar cells.
Apr 30, 2021 // Technology, USA, hydrogen, solar cell, perovskite, North America, UC Santa Barbara's College of Engineering
KIT achieves 18 percent effectiveness with perovskite solar module
Scientists at the German Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have actually produced perovskite solar modules with virtually no scaling losses. They combined serial interconnection by laser with vacuum processing of all layers of the solar cell.
Apr 28, 2021 // Technology, Germany, Europe, perovskite, PV module, KIT, efficiency, Ulrich W. Paetzold, Tobias Abzieher
Solar-powered desalination system reveals wonderful pledge
Despite the large amount of water in the world, the majority of it is nonpotable seawater. Freshwater accounts for just about 2.5% of the total amount, a lot of the globe experiences significant water scarcities.
Apr 28, 2021 // Technology, China, Asia, desalination, Chao Chang