We will admit that it is unlikely you have enough gear in your basement to make a solar cell using these steps. However, it is interesting to see how a bare silicon wafer becomes a solar cell.

A groundbreaking innovation can fully recycle modern solar panels using water, which would make it a truly sustainable energy ...

A lab at Georgia tech is experimenting with solar cells made with alternative materials, which its leader believes could help the world meet its energy needs.

Many are familiar with so-called photovoltaic cells, or solar panels, found on things like spacecraft, rooftops, and handheld calculators. The cells are made of semiconductor materials like those ...

To this end, many countries around the world are imposing legal requirements on photovoltaic manufacturers, to ensure that they collect and recycle any solar cell waste they produce. These initiatives ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign describes a breakthrough in the field of organic ...

But these simple systems leave a lot on the table ... which is currently powered by an LDO regulator and a small solar cell. While this is fairly energy efficient, the energy harvesters that ...

An international research team has fabricated a perovskite solar cell that reportedly shows lower ... nondestructive fabrication process, and simple operation. “Through π-π stacking and ...

but combining the two makes it "so simple it can be manufactured with a 3D printer," according to the publication. Currently, ...

Perovskite solar cells are one of the hottest topics in photovoltaics ... understanding the weakness of the material and making simple structural innovations to better achieve the function ...

Despite their advantages, CZTS solar cells have so far exhibited significantly ... To achieve this, the researchers devised a simple and scalable method to anneal CZTS in a hydrogen-containing ...

Perovskite solar cells are poised to be the next big photovoltaic ... efficiently and cost-effectively using a relatively simple method, says Ian Marius Peters, a photovoltaic researcher at ...