Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have achieved high efficiency in silicon solar cells with the help of precision-engineered surfaces. New designs of ...

A newly developed metasurface-based silicon antireflective coating combines rectangular and cylindrical meta-atom geometries. The metasurface achieves just 5 percent reflection, compared to ~50 ...

The ASTM G173 Standard Spectral Distribution of Sunlight represents a standard, reference solar spectrum that is used for solar photovoltaics testing and calibration purposes. It was defined in the ...

Researchers in India have demonstrated a wet chemical process to recover silicon with high purity from end-of-life solar panels, which they used to make functionalized silica nanoparticles. Tests of ...

Researchers are making significant strides in solar panel technology, particularly with perovskites, which can boost efficiency when combined with silicon. Artificial intelligence is being utilized to ...

IT is commonly claimed, and also true, that enough sunlight falls on Earth in the course of an hour to meet a year’s worth of global power needs. Some of that sunlight is currently converted into ...

Picture this! A solar panel that harvests light from both sides due to an incredible partnership set to reimagine the photovoltaic (PV) landscape. The quantum dot (QD) innovator, UbiQD, and First ...

Solar energy is the present and future. We are currently using it and more solar advances are being made to enhance how we use renewable energy, and one of those enhancements is what we will talk ...