Sandia National Laboratories researchers spent 10 years studying hazardous arc-faults.

'Transparent solar cells' can take us towards a new era of personalized energy

Perovskite materials are increasingly popular as the active layer in solar cells, but they are unstable.

Scientists have recently scrutinized organic solar cells and derived design rules for light-absorbing dyes.

Powering the future: New insights into how alkali-metal doped flexible solar cells work

This development will help solve wear-out failure problems that are limiting advanced applications in computers, solar cells, and many other devices.

Designing solar panels in checkerboard lines increases their ability to absorb light by 125%, a new study says

Researchers have been able to produce multilayered solar panels with the potential to be 1.5 times more efficient than traditional silicon panels.

This approach to grid-scale energy storage is estimated to be ten-fold cheaper than using batteries.

The team achieved 8.1% efficiency and 43.3% transparency with an organic, or carbon-based, design rather than conventional silicon.

The research points to a promising new direction for solar cell research.

These could range from cell phones to cameras and fiber optics, as well as in solar cells.