China’s Trina Solar has set a new world record for the conversion efficiency of a certain type of solar module, the company said in a statement on Monday. In laboratory tests, Trina’s ...

Solar water splitting is one of the most direct ways to produce green hydrogen using sunlight. However, most photocatalysts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have revealed that a type of salt can improve the efficiency of perovskite solar cells. Called guanidinium thiocyanate ...

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the University of Colorado have collaborated to develop a high-efficiency dual-junction solar cell, which includes a thin multi-quantum-well ...

Photosynthetic systems play a pivotal role in nature’s conversion of solar energy into chemical and electrical forms. At the heart of these processes lie pigment–protein complexes such as photosystem ...

JinkoSolar has announced a new conversion efficiency record for its 182 mm N-type TOPCon solar module. TÜV SÜD said that it achieved a conversion efficiency of 25.42%. “This further reinforces our ...

Photogalvanic cells represent a promising class of photoelectrochemical devices that not only harvest solar energy but also inherently store the generated electrical energy. Through a light-induced ...

A rare glimpse of the LONGi display containing it’s newly-presented perovskite tandem cell when it’s not surrounded by curious visitors at the Intersolar event in Munich, Germany. Image: Andre ...

LONGi Green Energy headquarters in Shaanxi, China. Image: LONGi Green Energy Major Chinese solar manufacturer LONGi has developed a crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell with a power ...

Coal mine-to-solar conversions are already happening in some countries, most notably China, which leads the world in solar uptake - Copyright AFP STR Coal mine-to ...

Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely solution to a common obstacle to uptake of the green energy source. Hundreds ...