A research group from Singapore has offered to reuse silicon from end-of-life photovoltaics in high-performance thermoelectric devices that convert heat into electricity. “Our method can be applied to ...
A new technical paper titled “Polycrystalline silicon PhC cavities for CMOS on-chip integration” was published by researchers at Tyndall National Institute, Munster Technological University, and ...
A research team from the University of Huddersfield used electron microscopy to analyze micro-cracks in 4,000 polycrystalline silicon solar cell samples. The results showed power losses may vary from ...
Prof. YE Jichun's team from the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), along with researchers from Soochow University, have ...
Solar panels are mostly made of silicon, which derives from sand. Here's how that abundant substance is transformed into something that generates electricity. If you're looking to install a solar ...
Since silicon is the third most abundant element on Earth (after iron and oxygen), it is undoubtedly a readily accessible raw material. It is a significant component of solar cells and electronic ...
The company’s new scientific paper, published in Nature, reveals that its hybrid interdigitated back-contact (HIBC) solar cell achieved a record-breaking efficiency of 27.81%, marking a major step ...
If you were to travel back in time to the turn of the previous century and try to convince the average person that the grains of sand on just about any beach would be the basis of an industry worth ...