Solar panels have become more efficient over the years, but even the best designs still lose a large fraction of the energy ...

Quantum dots are nanoscale semiconductor crystals whose size-tunable bandgaps and high defect tolerance have been harnessed to enhance the performance of metal halide perovskite solar cells. By ...

Intermediate band quantum dot solar cells (IB QD SCs) represent an advanced photovoltaic architecture designed to exceed the Shockley–Queisser limit by harvesting sub-bandgap photons. In these devices ...

Sep. 3—A new "joint development agreement" that New Mexico-based Ubiquitous Quantum Dots signed in August with global solar-panel maker First Solar Inc. could soon convert the local startup into a ...

Scientists are always pushing the boundaries of solar cell efficiency – how much of the available sunshine gets turned into electricity – and a new approach to the technology has resulted in an ...

The transparent four-terminal perovskite solar cell employs an ion-modulated spiro-MeOTAD hole transport layer, which passivates interfacial defects, enhances carrier dynamics, and allows for a ...

A research team led by Professor Jiwoong Yang and Professor Su Il In from the Department of Energy Science & Engineering at DGIST (President Kunwoo Lee), in collaboration with Professor Jae-Yup Kim ...

Researchers decoded the synthesis mechanism of heavy-metal-free CuInS2 quantum dots and built a photoelectrochemical device with record hydrogen production efficiency. (Nanowerk News) Researchers at ...

A research team has developed a hierarchical-shell perovskite nanocrystal technology that simultaneously overcomes the long-standing instability of metal-halide perovskite emitters while achieving ...

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 ...

Energy can never be created or destroyed. That's basic Physics 101. You simply cannot create energy out of thin air. Yet researchers at Kyushu University in Japan say they have developed a technology ...

“Purity” is one of the many myths of perfection, suggesting that absolute conformity is the only way to produce supreme value. Just as that claim is false for human populations, new research in ...