Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have developed a new type of back-contact solar cell design that will enable scalable, low-cost manufacturing as it ...

Solar power has an efficiency problem. When the electrons move from the solar panel to the battery that stores them, about 20 percent of the energy is lost. But now, thanks to new type of solar cell, ...

An ariel view of solar panels at Sao Mai solar energy plant in An Giang province of Vietnam. The country will be one target of tariffs by the U.S. meant to discourage dumping of cheap solar cells on ...

Researchers at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a new way to stick different layers of tandem solar cells and achieved ...

While the current PLI scheme covers the entire solar manufacturing chain, from upstream processes like polysilicon refining, ingot and wafer production to downstream segments such as solar cells and ...

If you rewind the clock fifteen or twenty years, residential solar energy was a tough sell. The systems were incredibly expensive, wildly inefficient, and—let’s be brutally honest—they were usually an ...