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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Solar power has long been constrained by a supposedly unbreakable ceiling on how much sunlight a panel can turn into ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Crystalline-silicon solar panels are efficient, reliable, and dominate the solar-panel market. However, new third-gen solar technology could do what c-Si solar panels cannot, including flexible, ...

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