Scientists at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands have fabricated a front-back contact silicon heterojunction (FBC-SHJ) solar cell with a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) ...

German wafer manufacturer NexWafe GmbH announced it achieved a power conversion efficiency of 24.4% for a heterojunction (HJT) solar cell built with its ultrathin wafers. The company said the ...

A single chemical additive applied during perovskite film deposition helped lift a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell to a ...

Just last month, a European group posted a record of 30.8%. Image: Fraunhofer ISE. Chinese solar manufacturer Risen Energy has produced what it called a “record” conversation efficiency on a ...

Researchers have reported rapid efficiency gains in perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells, including designs that pair ...

China’s Trina Solar has set a new world record for the conversion efficiency of a certain type of solar module, the company said in a statement on Monday. In laboratory tests, Trina’s ...

The cell efficiency of 32.5% is an improvement over a figure of 32.38% reported at the turn of the year. Image: Maxwell. Chinese cell equipment manufacturer Maxwell has developed a perovskite/silicon ...

Silicon heterojunction solar cells combine crystalline silicon substrates with thin amorphous silicon layers to harness the advantages of both materials. This approach yields superior passivation, ...

Tongwei is partnering with GS-Solar and Golden Solar to develop a large-scale manufacturing facility for hybrid ...

Solar energy plays a big role in the fight against climate change. As the world turns to solar power, concerns about the environmental impact of traditional solar panels continue to grow. Today’s most ...

A joint research team led by Dr. Hee-Eun Song of the Photovoltaics Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (President Yi Chang-Keun, hereafter “KIER”) and Prof. Ka-Hyun Kim of ...