As the name implies, thin film solar panels are composed of solar cells that are much thinner ... 12 Smart Gadgets You Didn't Know Existed Amorphous silicon panels predate all other thin film ...

Researchers from HZB and Humboldt University Berlin have developed a CIGS-perovskite tandem solar cell that achieves a record ...

Combining two semiconductor thin films into a tandem solar cell can achieve high efficiencies with a minimal environmental footprint. Teams have now presented a CIGS-perovskite tandem cell that sets a ...

Thin film material own the property of bandgap and requires ten times lesser quantity of substrate material to absorb light as compared to other solar cells. These are employed in wide range of ...

Will Norman asks if mass-scale deployment of perovskite technology is now imminent and whether it could unseat crystalline ...

A Trick of Light: Researchers Turn Silicon Into Direct Bandgap Semiconductor ... improved the performance of kesterite (CZTSSe) thin-film solar cells. They developed a new method for doping ...

And the lower cost of producing these lightweight cells, printed on flexible plastic, means that manufacturing can remain in ...

In a study published in Nature, researchers at Linköping University have developed a method to recycle all parts of a solar ...

Academia Sinica researchers work on new solar cell technology in an undated photograph. Photo courtesy of Academia Sinica However, perovskite films can be combined with silicon solar cells to form ...

Lightweight, robust, radiation-resilient photovoltaics are critical technologies for many aerospace applications. OPV cells ...

Photovoltaics (PVs), devices that can convert sunlight into electrical power, are becoming increasingly widespread and more ...

Description of main research theme: Thin-film solar cells are the most rapidly advancing branch within photovoltaic technology, serving to directly convert sunlight into electrical energy. Despite ...