Solar Technology & PV R&D News

Lithium is an energy-critical element that is considered to be a geopolitically substantial resource. However, the supply of lithium might not be enough to satisfy continuously boosting need. As a result, researchers are looking for brand-new ways to extract lithium ions.

The team of so-called steel halide perovskites as products has reinvented the area of photovoltaics in the last few years. Typically talking, steel halide perovskites are crystalline products that follow the struc-ture ABX3, with differing structure.

Recently, researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and also Fine Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have actually made progress in ultrafast characteristics of polymer solar cells (PSCs) with Soochow University.

A study group from the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum (RUB), along with coworkers from Lisbon, has produced a semi-artificial electrode that could transform light energy right into various other forms of energy in biosolar cells.

Researchers in Australia have developed a procedure for computing the perfect dimension and also density of quantum dots required to accomplish record effectiveness in solar panels.

In work published in the National Science Review (nwaa288), a group at HPSTAR led by Dr. Xujie Lu used high pressure to tune the exceptional photoluminescence (PL) buildings in halide perovskites. For the very first time, they expose a global connection where controling the level of off-centering distortion (in the direction of 0.2) can attain optimum PL efficiency.

Revolutionary perovskite solar modern technology has established a brand-new globe record for the amount of the sunlight's energy that can be exchanged electrical energy by a solitary solar cell.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have created a brand-new family members of cathodes with the prospective to change the pricey cobalt-based cathodes generally located in today's lithium-ion batteries that power electrical lorries and customer electronics.

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and also the University of New South Wales attained a new world-record performance for two-junction solar cells, producing a cell with two light-absorbing layers that transforms 32.9% of sunshine into electrical power.

Swift Solar has safeguarded greater than USD 8 million in Series Seed 2 funding, with an additional USD 1.5 million anticipated to close soon.

A global study group including Professor Federico Rosei of the Institut nationwide de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has shown a novel procedure to modify the framework as well as residential or commercial properties of graphene.

During a year unlike any other, Solar Power World proceeded working hard to bring solar installers, designers and also manufacturers the functions and also information they needed to do their jobs much better. Without meetings to participate in for chances to learn more about the latest items as well as fads in the sector, SPW editors recognized it was more crucial than ever before to maintain viewers up-to-date with prompt posts.

A team of researchers from Lancaster University in the UK have developed an entire brand-new method to save power from the Sun for numerous months at a time, with the alternative of releasing it as needed in the form of warmth.

Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have developed a color atlas for 466 distinct varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Design solutions business Solar Support has actually presented a diagnostic equipment maintenance program that uses analytics to evaluate the wellness of main inverters in utility-scale PV systems. Backed by 22 years of inverter and power electronic devices repairing, the program supports both anticipating as well as corrective O&M.