Long before perovskite solar cells began smashing efficiency records and transforming the future of clean energy, their modern design first emerged from a quiet experiment at Northwestern University.

Why do tin sulfide solar cells, a promising and eco-friendly material, struggle to reach their full theoretical potential? This question has long concerned scientists, while these devices ...

The introduction of a nanometric germanium oxide layer drastically improved device performance and stability. As the global demand for clean energy accelerates, solar power continues to attract ...

Scientists create perovskite film semiconductors at room temperature using lasers, which is a revolution for chips and solar ...

Unlike the majority of today’s expensive, inorganic, silicon-based semiconductor solar cells, a new solar cell being created will be less costly since it will be developed from organic, or ...

Assistant Professor Mahshid Ahmadi and Assistant Professor Jonghee Yang at Yonsei University, Korea—one of Ahmadi's former postdoctoral fellows—contributed to two significant research projects ...

Perovskite solar cells are a high-efficiency, low-cost alternative to traditional silicon-based solar panels. With the perovskite solar cell industry expected to reach $1.2 billion by 2033, there’s ...

Researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara have visualized photoexcited charges traveling across the interface of two different semiconductor materials within a solar cell. In a solar ...

Two Silicon Valley start-ups that are poised to deliver more cost-effective solar cells to the red-hot solar market have scored venture capital from leading local firms Kleiner Perkins and Mohr ...

A new solar device generates 15 times more energy: a breakthrough in thermoelectric generators converts solar heat into electricity.

From transition metal dichalcogenides to boron nitride and beyond, these ultrathin systems have found relevance in fields ranging from photonics to quantum computing. Yet despite this momentum, the ...

University of Tennessee Assistant Professor Mahshid Ahmadi specializes in promoting materials discovery by integrating traditional methods with machine learning and automated synthesis. University of ...