These make up the bulk of the cell ... inefficiency compared to that of fossil fuels is part of the reason why solar cells still only account for less than 0.1 percent of the energy used in ...

UK-based Power Roll has been working on a way to print low-cost solar film to generate clean energy from sunlight. It's now ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign describes a breakthrough in the field of organic ...

A solar cell is made of two types of semiconductors, called p-type and n-type silicon. The p-type silicon is produced by adding atoms—such as boron or gallium—that have one less electron in their ...

Researchers from Linköping University in Sweden believe they may have found a solution that could let solar manufacturers have their cake and eat it too. Using a newly designed recycling technique, ...