New Technique Tracks Dark Excitons for Future Solar Cells by Robert Schreiber Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 30, 2025 How can modern technologies, like solar cells, be optimized? An international team of researchers, led by the University of Gottingen, is tackling this question using an innovative new technique. For the first time, the formation […]
Lights out for French solar panel maker by AFP Staff Writers Lyon (AFP) Jan 24, 2025 One of France’s last manufacturers of solar panels — held by a unit of the state-owned EDF electricity group that manages the nation’s nuclear power reactors, will be closed after no buyer emerged. EDF Renewables said Friday […]
What to do with aging solar panels? by Jennifer Nichols and Raven Wuebker for TAMU News College Station TX (SPX) Jan 26, 2025 The National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator Program has granted $5 million dollars to Phase 2 of the project “Securing critical material supply chains by enabling phOtovoltaic circuLARity (SOLAR).” […]
War is speeding Ukraine’s green energy shift: CEO By Sophie ESTIENNE Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 23, 2025 Russia’s invasion is forcing Ukraine to speed up its green energy transition as a way to secure its electricity supply and infrastructure against attacks, the head of Ukraine’s biggest private electricity provider said. “Building wind farms […]
Scale-up fabrication of perovskite quantum dots by Simon Mansfield Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 24, 2025 Quantum dots, tiny semiconductor nanomaterials known for their color-tunable and highly efficient photoluminescence, have revolutionized display technologies such as liquid crystal displays (LCDs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and micro light-emitting diodes (Micro-LEDs). In 2023, the Nobel Prize in […]
Finding better photovoltaic materials faster with AI by Robert Schreiber Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 24, 2025 Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nurnberg (HI ERN) have developed a novel AI-driven workflow that dramatically accelerates the discovery of high-efficiency materials for perovskite solar cells. By synthesizing and testing […]
