Solar panels capture sunlight and convert it to electricity using photovoltaic (PV) cells like the one illustrated above. Such cells, which can power everything from calculators to cars (our ...

How can the latest technology, such as solar cells, be improved? An international research team is helping to find answers to questions like this with a new technique. For the first time, the ...

How can the latest technology, such as solar cells, be improved? An international research team led by the University of ...

In materials such as organic photovoltaics (used in solar cells), which contain carbon-based ... science with quantum computing is ongoing. In theory at least, marrying the two could enable ...

And the lower cost of producing these lightweight cells, printed on flexible plastic, means that manufacturing can remain in ...

Photovoltaics (PVs), devices that can convert sunlight into electrical power, are becoming increasingly widespread and more ...

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 ...

[Bearospace] put all the theory into practice on Solar Dragon, which incorporates over 250 W of high-efficiency Maxeon C60 solar cells on the wing, tail, and triangular fuselage. The cells were ...

Perovskite solar cells are also expected to be relatively inexpensive to produce, in theory, which would make them even more of a direct competitor to today's common solar panel technologies.