Silicon solar cells are not the only type of solar cells available to capture the sunlight, we also have dye-sensitized solar cells also called Grätzel cells after their inventor, Michael Grätzel. I’m glad to announce you that a team of researchers from China and Switzerland have reported the highest efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells which [...]

Although many scientists regarded this as almost impossible, a team of researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new anti-reflective coating which will allow solar panels to absorb light from the entire solar spectrum, and to capture almost all the amount of sunlight from almost any angle. This is a major breakthrough which [...]

Remember how everyone tells you that your PC, Mac or laptop is not environmentally-friendly? Well, this thing could change thanks to the LawnPC. This could become the PC of the future as it’s solar-powered and wireless. The LawnPC was designed by David Veldkamp with greenness and efficiency in his mind, however, the design is also [...]

Good news for solar power as the University of New South Wales ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence has announced that they managed to develop a silicon solar cell which has an efficiency of 25 percent. It’s a new world record, however, the previous record was also held by the UNSW ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence [...]

A major double breakthrough which could lead to significantly improved solar cells has been achieved by a team of chemists from the Ohio State University. The researchers managed to develop a new material which will absorb all the energy coming from the sun beams, and in the same time it can generate and capture electrons [...]

Researchers at a startup company called Solyndra have designed a new way of deploying solar panels which is cheaper and more efficient than regular solar panels. The new technique consists of cylindrical solar cells which are made of thin-film semiconductor material that is deposited on a glass tube.

The thin-film semiconductor material is made of copper, [...]

We all know boats regularly swallow more gasoline than a car, so this Czeers MK1 model is as welcomed as it can be. The 10 meters boat is covered in photovoltaic solar cells, and the energy generated aids reaching a top speed of 30 knots, which is the equivalent of about 35 miles per hour.
It [...]

Enerize Corporation used a transparent polymer material that could replace the standard glass used for solar cells covering, raising their performance level. The new material is stable under ionizing radiation exposure and UV, and highly transparent in the same time.
The conventional glass is brittle, heavy and reflective, so the cell doesn’t receive the entire energy [...]

As the global warming is here, everybody is trying to come up environmentally-friendly projects. Green concepts will also consist of gadgets in the future. One company which will integrate solar cells in gadgets is Apple as they filed a patent for portable devices and computers.
The new generation of Apple’s handhelds and laptops will be powered [...]

Surprisingly or not, IBM really wants to develop a new technology that could help harnessing solar power. The researchers from IBM designed a system based on the concentrator photovoltaics technique which is very similar to the thing that we all did when we were kids - we used a magnifying glass to burn thing by [...]