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Combining an Earth-abundant chalcopyrite with a silicon layer could significantly boost conversion efficiency above that of single-junction silicon solar cells. A current technological challenge in photovoltaics (PV) is to implement a lattice-matched, optically efficient material to be used in conjunction with silicon for tandem PV cells. III-V materials currently...
Solar home systems accumulate energy of the Sun using solar collectors. It's free, first of all pure energy with zero carbon dioxide emissions. Collectors provide heat...
Today, more and more people are using solar home in their households. Each solar home system must have solar panels to be able to use sunlight...
These are some of the most crucial solar storylines of the past three months, according to GTM Research’s analysts. Every quarter, GTM Research's solar analysts...
NREL investigates how best to protect tanks and piping used for thermal energy storage and heat transfer fluids. Molten salts and supercritical carbon dioxide (s-CO2) are thermal...
Results give insight on a novel, promising class of photoactive materials for solar conversion applications. Organometallic halide perovskites (e.g., CH3NH3PbI3) are a novel class of light absorbing materials...
NREL’s improved time-resolved photoluminescence method measures the minority - carrier lifetime deep within photovoltaic samples to help develop more efficient solar cells. When developing a solar...
NREL has created an analytical model to study a hybrid power option concentrating solar power (CSP) coupled with natural-gas-powered generation. Several novel concepts related to power...
NREL’s analytic equation uses open-circuit voltage data to determine how much recombination occurs via different channels in a solar cell. Shockley-Reed-Hall recombination plays an important role...
Researchers create a way to prepare doped nanocrystal solutions for solar thin films that are nontoxic and less expensive than heavy metal-based thin films. Scientists at...