Solar manufacturers have wrung more electricity from essentially the same basic device: a wafer of silicon sitting beneath ...

Chinese researchers have developed a new type of tandem solar cell that achieves a power conversion efficiency of 29.71 percent. The team improved the stability of the perovskite material by adding a ...

Researchers in Germany and Spain have developed a fast vacuum coating process capable of producing perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells with efficiencies of up to 24.3 percent in just 10 minutes. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The singlet fission experiment captured energy with high efficiency. (Kyushu University) Scientists are always pushing the ...

Perovskite solar cells hit 34.71% efficiency at 10 meters underwater, potentially extending battery-free operation for marine ...

Researchers reported on September 1, 2026 a flexible perovskite solar cell that delivers a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 25.21% — among the highest ever recorded for a single-junction ...

A South Carolina solar cell factory completed a 2 gigawatt expansion on July 7, 2026, bringing the US domestic solar cell supply chain one significant step closer to the independence the Inflation ...

US factories hit 100 GW of cumulative solar module production in Q2 2026, but domestic cell-making capacity remains a fraction of what those assembly lines need.

A promising solar-cell architecture, in which two layers of perovskite semiconductors are stacked on silicon, is making strides towards achieving its full potential. Read the paper: Triple-1 junction ...

Despite the sharp U-turn in federal energy policy, solar cell innovators in the US just keep on persisting in the search for higher efficiency and lower costs. That includes the startup Solx, which ...

India is on course to add a record 50 gigawatts (GW) of solar power capacity in the 2026 calendar year, largely aided by the ALMM mandate for solar PV cells and the phased removal of waivers for inter ...