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Solar cells, devices that convert sunlight into electricity, are now widely used in many countries. While most existing solar ...

How do organic solar cells work on the inside? The answer lies in structures far too small to see—and difficult to access ...

Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the ...

The singlet fission experiment captured energy with high efficiency. (Kyushu University) Scientists are always pushing the ...

A novel thin-film technology enables solar panels to generate electricity from both sunlight and raindrops.

Hundreds of years ago, lead musket balls tore across European battlefields, littering the ground with toxic materials. Today, ...

Researchers have developed a molecular design strategy to stabilize the delicate interface in inverted perovskite solar cells. By enforcing multidimensional spatial confinement in a custom-designed ...

Energy can never be created or destroyed. That's basic Physics 101. You simply cannot create energy out of thin air. Yet ...

For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came ...

Materials research suffers from trial-and-error synthesis and fabrication, while the resulting numerical datasets fail to ...

Despite being riddled with impurities and defects, solution-processed lead-halide perovskites are surprisingly efficient at converting solar energy into electricity. Their efficiency is approaching ...