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Solar renewable energy to work towards a ‘greener’ planet. Technological innovations in solar panels and news within the application of solar technology.
Nanoscale semiconductor raises solar cell energy conversion rate
Solar cells do not convert all light to power equally, which has inspired a joint industry-academia effort to…
Predicting the light absorbed by photosynthetic pigments
A wide variety of pigments to absorb different wavelengths of light are used by plants and other photosynthetic…
French town powered by solar panel paved road
France has inaugurated the world's first 'solar highway', a road paved with solar panels providing enough energy to…
The bigger, the better, for solar power storage
It would be a lot easier to expand our use of solar and wind energy if we had better ways to store the large…
Exciton binding energy is the key for efficient solar cells
The golden ticket for successful solar cell technology is efficiency: the amount of sunlight a solar cell can…
Highly efficient solar cells inspired by plants
To make a key discovery that could help make solar cells more efficient, a University of California, Riverside…
Tesla’s SolarCity sets example for the world
To celebrate its $2.6bn acquisition of SolarCity, Tesla has announced a major solar energy project: wiring up the…
Imaging technique boosts solar cell efficiency
Next gen solar cells made of super-thin films of semiconducting material hold promise because they're relatively…
‘Back to the Future’ inspired solar-powered clothing
A UCF scientist has developed filaments that harvest and store the sun's energy - and can be woven into textiles,…
Perovskite solar cell design performs at lower cost
A new type of solar cell that replaces silicon with a crystal called perovskite has been created by researchers.…