Developed by Tsutomu Miyasaka in 2009, perovskite solar cells emerged as a breakthrough in photovoltaics and a promising ...

The research advanced the durability of perovskite solar cells without compromising their exceptional efficiency, moving closer to a practical, low-cost alternative to silicon-based photovoltaics.

An international research group demonstrated the first perovskite solar cells on polycarbonate substrates, suitable for flexible PV applications. Using an industrially compatible fabrication method, ...

Modern consumer solar technology offers quite a bit of variety, from standard panel designs with silicon materials to thin-film alternatives made of cadmium. So, what's all this about perovskite solar ...

Researchers from Fraunhofer’s ‘MaNiTU’ project produced a perovskite silicon tandem solar cell with a conversion efficiency of 31.6% on an area of 1cm². Image: Fraunhofer ISE. In a joint project ...

Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) is accepting proposals for a six-year R&D program to advance large-scale manufacturing technologies and field testing of ...

Combining two semiconductor thin films into a tandem solar cell can achieve high efficiencies with a minimal environmental footprint. Teams have now presented a CIGS-perovskite tandem cell that sets a ...

Addition of graphene to perovskite solar cells (PSC) shown to improve efficiency two-fold and reduce production costs by up to 80% Cost-effective production allows scale up of volume and increases ...

A new kind of ‘camera’ is poking at the invisible world of the human body – and it’s made from the same weird crystals that ...