An international team of scientists has created the first silicon-based fiber-optic solar cell that is as thin as a strand of human hair....

Princeton University scientist have found a simple and cost-effective method to nearly triple the efficiency of solar cells, using cheap...

Scientists from Stanford University have contributed to the push to lower costs of photovoltaic cells by creating one entirely made of...

California-based Amonix, Inc., a manufacturer of concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) systems, recently set a world record with a CPV module...

Solar Junction, a Silicon Valley-based firm that develops multi-junction concentrating photovoltaics (CPV), set a new world record in...

Researchers at the University of Texas in Dallas have won a grant to develop use nanotechnology to create thinner, lighter and more...

Researchers at Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) have found a way to boost solar cell efficiency by using black silicon, a material that can...

Belgium-based companies IMEC, a nanoelectronics researcher, and Solvay, a chemical production company, have developed an organic...

Scientists at Vanderbilt University have discovered a way of using a photosynthetic protein in spinach to improve solar panel efficiency....

New solar technology is being developed by scientists at the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) in North Carolina that could make the...

A Spanish architect has developed a spherical solar cell that, through the use of concentrating solar power, may well make flat PV panels...

A group of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have built prototypes of a new type of transparent solar cell....

Researchers have developed a new technology that would allow solar cells to be made from almost any semiconductor material. At present,...