Hanergy's thin solar panels break multiple world records for efficiency
China-based Hanergy just launched the highest efficiency single-junction solar panel ever created. Hanergy's US-based...
Low-cost “solar absorber” could supercharge solar power plants
One of the major challenges in developing solar panels has been creating photovoltaic cells which can absorb as...
New 2D perovskite cell could slash the cost of solar
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have come up with new perovskite technology that could dramatically...
New Swiss solar panel doubles the efficiency of residential systems
As if to prove the sheer speed at which solar panel technology is evolving, a startup called Insolight has created...
MIT's new solar cell turns heat into light to break energy conversion limits
MIT researchers are heating up clean energy technology with a new solar cell capable of converting solar heat into...
Scientists just set a new world record for solar cell efficiency
A pair of engineers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) just set a new world record for solar power by...
Austrian scientists create a cheap, flexible solar cell just 3 micrometers thick
The age old mineral perovskite has been something of a holy grail in solar cell development; the mineral is abundant,...
V3Solar's spinning solar cells generate 20 times more electricity than flat photovoltaics
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ3daW6CDJI] The V3 Spin Cell was developed through collaboration with...
Rawlemon's New Betaray Crystal Ball Harvests Light From The Sun, Moon and Clouds!
In 2012, Inhabitat featured an invention that promised to turn the world of solar power generation upside down....
Rock On! Playing Pop and Rock Music Around Solar Cells Improves Efficiency
New research out of the UK finds that solar cells actually enjoy improved efficiency when exposed to the pounding...
German-French Team Unveils World's Most Efficient Solar Cell!
A team comprised of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center,...
7 Incredible Inventions by Teenage Wunderkinds
An Ocean Clean Up Array to Remove 7,250,000 Tons of Plastic From the World's Oceans When we first covered Boyan...
3D-Textured Solar Cells to be Tested on the International Space Station
In one of the first experiments to take place on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS), a new type...
Researchers Create Efficient, Recyclable Solar Cells from Trees
Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), in collaboration...
MIT Scientists Create a More Efficient Solar Cell by Using Quantum Dots and Nanowires
A team of researchers at MIT have developed a more efficient photovoltaic solar cell using particles known as quantum...
