Perovskite solar cells are seen as the future of renewable energy because they can be very efficient and low-cost. But the ...

Vision of future solar cell fabrication on the Moon, utilizing raw regolith. Shown are robots that source raw regolith and bring it to a production facility, which fabricates perovskite-based moon ...

By protecting the surface during heating, the team reduced the chance that tiny flaws would grow into long-term failures.

Combining two materials that selectively absorb short and long wavelengths, e.g., blue/green and red/infrared parts of the spectrum, makes the best use of our sunlight and is a well-known strategy to ...

Solar cells made of organic molecules offer many advantages over their silicon cousins. They are thin, lightweight, flexible, and printable on large areas. But make the devices bendy, and their ...

In a study published in Nature, researchers at Linköping University have developed a method to recycle all parts of a solar cell repeatedly without environmentally hazardous solvents. The recycled ...

NASA's plan to establish a permanent human presence on the moon will require making better use of lunar resources. A new approach has now shown how to make solar cells out of moon dust. Later this ...

Scientists in China have developed a new method to boost efficiency and strength of ...

Perovskite solar cells have long been the most exciting “almost there” technology in clean ...

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