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Keppel Infrastructure, through its applied technology innovation arm, KepInfra Energy Transition Centre (KETC), National University of Singapore, through its Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), through its Energy Research Institute @ NTU ([email protected]) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a joint-study on the technological […]

A new type of material for one of the solar cells was proposed by specialists of the Ural Federal University (UrFU) and the Institute of Organic Synthesis of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences together with their colleagues. The compounds found will significantly reduce the cost of solar cell production. The […]

Tandem solar cells made of perovskite and silicon enable significantly higher efficiencies than silicon solar cells alone. Tandem cells from HZB have already achieved several world records. Most recently, in November 2021, HZB research teams achieved a certified efficiency of 29.8 % with a tandem cell made of perovskite and silicon. This […]

Mesoscopic dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) were invented in 1990s by Brian O’Regan and Michael Gratzel, taking on the latter’s name – the world-famous Gratzel cells. DSCs convert light into electricity through photosensitizers – dye compounds that absorb light and inject electrons into an array of oxide nanocrystals which subsequently are collected as electric current. […]

To achieve climate neutrality, use of renewable energy sources must be increased massively. “Large solar parks are very important in this connection,” says Nina Munzke. The researcher at KIT’s Institute of Electrical Engineering (ETI) initiated the Solar Park 2.0 project at KIT’s Battery Technical Center. “However, it is a problem to find […]