A special thin layer forms on its own and helps solar cells work better by guiding light and charge through the right path.

Commercial silicon-based solar cells have made significant improvements in efficiency over the past decade, increasing from ...

Chinese solar module maker Longi has presented a new tandem perovskite-silicon solar cell with a 34.58% power conversion efficiency. The cell incorporates a new material designed to reduce passivating ...

The researchers built a silicon microwire cell with an interface based on a hafnium oxy-nitride film, which improves the ...

Researchers in China have built a tandem-perovskite solar cell with a top perovskite device based on an absorber treated with n-butanol, which reportedly reduces the detrimental effects of ...

The cell surpassed the power conversion efficiencies previously reported for all other perovskite-based triple-junction tandems, as well as single-junction perovskite and silicon solar cells ...

All-inorganic perovskite materials exhibit exceptional thermal stability and promising candidates for tandem devices, while ...

Tandem perovskite–silicon solar cells produced at Oxford PV’s Brandenburg factory. Credit: Oxford PV. Working at full tilt, the plant could produce up to 50 MW of cells per year — roughly 5 ...

LONGi has announced another significant breakthrough in solar cell R&D, with its independently developed two-terminal crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell achieving a conversion ...

A tandem approach for better solar cells. King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) Journal Science DOI 10.1126/science.adh3849 ...

Major Chinese solar manufacturer LONGi has developed a crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell with a power conversion efficiency of 33.9%, the highest on record for this type of cell.

This is a close-up look at a high-performance solar cell made from a monocrystalline silicon wafer. The contact grid is made from busbars (large strip) and fingers (small strips).