Darth Vaders dark eyes inspired a new nanotechnology-based black silicon that makes solar cells more efficient. The resultant ...

Halide perovskites—already a focus of major research into efficient, low-cost solar cells—have been shown to handle light ...

Australian scientists have set a new global standard for perovskite-based solar technology, after they developed the most efficient and largest triple-junction perovskite–perovskite–silicon tandem ...

Novel design strategies provide a step towards more efficient and stable perovskite–perovskite–silicon solar cells ...

Quantum dots are nanoscale semiconductor crystals, typically ranging from 2 to 10 nanometers in diameter. At this scale, the materials exhibit unique optical and electronic properties due to the ...

A material best known for its promise in affordable solar cells has just revealed another astonishing talent — producing ...

Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed a 2D/3D tin halide perovskite (THP) solar cell with a certified efficiency of 16.65% and peak performance of 17.13%, maintaining stable ...

A Chinese research group claims to have achieved remarkable efficiency and stability in a solar cell based on a perovskite absorber incorporating MXene, a novel type of 2D material known for its ...

Quantum effects lasting just 2 trillionths of a second discovered in easily manufactured perovskite films could enable ultra-fast light technology and practical quantum devices.