Solar Technology & PV R&D News

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.

High-temperature technologies make it possible for electrothermal storage space systems for large amounts of energy from renewable sources.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Photocatalysts serve materials, with a myriad of environmental and power applications, including air purification, water treatment, self-cleaning surface areas, pollution-fighting paints and coverings, hydrogen production as well as CO2 conversion to lasting gas.

From cat's-whisker detectors in the very early 1900s to electronic circuit contribute modern-day cellphones, digital tools have been customized in myriad imaginative ways to adapt to the needs of mankind.

The Freiburg, Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has achieved a new performance globe record with a monolithic tandem cell made of III-V semiconductors (aspects from the third and 5th major teams of the table of elements) and silicon.

A timely reaction to the worldwide need for clean energy has actually originated from universities as well as research centres like Colorado State University (CSU), the Wright Center for Photovoltaics at the University of Toledo, as well as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in addition to US-based industrial solar business working with Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar panel production, which have joined pressures to develop the UNITED STATE Production of Advanced Cadmium Telluride (US-MAC) photovoltaics consortium.

Scientists from TNO, Imec and Eindhoven University of Technology, companions in the Netherlands-based Solliance research consortium, have actually established a transparent perovskite solar cell with near-infrared efficiency of 18.6 percent.

The variety of photovoltaic panels within fastest distance from a home is one of the most crucial factor in identifying the possibility of that house having a photovoltaic panel, when compared with a host of socio-economic as well as group variables. This is received a brand-new research study by researchers utilizing satellite and also census data of the city of Fresno in the US, as well as using machine learning.

Exactly how can I prepare myself for something I do not yet know? Researchers from the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin and also from the Technical University of Munich have addressed this almost philosophical inquiry in the context of artificial intelligence. Learning is no more than making use of prior experience. In order to handle a new circumstance, one requires to have actually taken care of roughly comparable situations prior to.

Researchers examining the effect of solar power advancement throughout Europe have come up with ten methods which the development of solar can be formed to make sure pollinators benefit

Can solar panels create energy even when the sunlight isn't around? In a significant development, researchers at the University of The golden state have created a distinct evening photovoltaic panel (NSP) that can create 50 W under optimal problems in the evening, one-fourth of what traditional photovoltaic panel create during the day.