A team of Chinese scientists has developed a new passivation strategy that significantly improves both the efficiency and ...

A research team led by scientists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and partners has pushed a monolithic ...

Solar power is one of the world’s most important clean energy sources, and scientists are constantly searching for ways to ...

Silicon solar cells were supposed to be running out of headroom, yet a new device has pushed their performance to 27.81% efficiency and reset expectations for what a single-junction cell can do. That ...

Chinese researchers, led by a research team from PV Technology Center of Tongwei Co., Ltd, used a sequential annealing process in the fabrication of tandem solar cells, featuring a wide bandgap ...

A vacuum-based process could make solar cells faster and cheaper to produce while delivering efficiency on surfaces used in ...

Researchers have developed a perovskite-organic tandem solar cell that achieves 26.4 percent efficiency. Unlike rigid silicon modules, the lightweight design can generate power on curved or flexible ...

China’s Hebei University and module manufacturer DAS Solar have jointly developed a silicon solar cell featuring a novel hole transport layer (HTL) designed to simplify production and reduce costs. In ...

Combined summary of 2025 record efficiencies for silicon, perovskite, and organic solar cells, illustrating the latest technological benchmarks and cross-platform performance comparison under standard ...

The 1cm² cells, pictured, achieved a record-breaking 27.06% power conversion efficiency. Image: University of Sydney. Scientists from the University of Sydney have created what they claim is the ...

Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the material actually help, creating networks that separate and guide electric ...