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A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunlight through singlet fission. The result ...

A team of researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB), led by physicist Steve Albrecht, says it has pushed solar cell ...

Perovskite solar cells shouldn’t work as well as they do—but they do. Scientists have now discovered that defects inside the material actually help, creating networks that separate and guide electric ...

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

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

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

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

Scientists achieve ‘impossible’ solar efficiency in renewables breakthrough - ‘Spin-flip’ technique promises to shatter ...

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 ...

The shift to renewable energy sources generally faces a significant bottleneck: producing electric power in bad weather. A ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have boosted the power conversion efficiency of ...