Completely ‘self-supporting’ garden lamps using solar cells as their energy source are gradually becoming more and more common. How do they actually work? We took one apart to find out. From ...

Perovskites are semiconducting materials that have rapidly transformed the field of optoelectronics, demonstrating ...

A new solar breakthrough may overcome a long-standing efficiency barrier. Researchers used a “spin-flip” metal complex to capture and multiply energy from sunlight through singlet fission. The result ...

From the front porch to the back, lighting technology has changed how home and business owners approach outdoor lighting. Modern outdoor landscape lighting has focused on energy saving, sustainability ...

Perovskite materials have rapidly emerged as a leading class of compounds in the field of optoelectronics, driving significant advances in solar cell and ...

Using a new method, physicists found a way to 'catapult' electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second.

An innovative hybrid solar device that combines a PV panel and energy storage has achieved record levels of energy storage efficiency for such a device. And unlike conventional batteries, the ...