More than 60% of home battery installations inspected in Australia are ‘substandard’ – The Conversation
More than 60% of home battery installations inspected in Australia are ‘substandard’ The Conversation
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Robotic AI System Runs 50000 Perovskite Solar Cell Experiments and Hits 27 Percent Efficiency
by Riko Seibo Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 16, 2026 Perovskite solar cells have emerged as one of the most promising next-generation photovoltaic technologies, but their development still depends heavily on time-consuming trial-and-error synthesis and labor-intensive device fabrication. Researchers from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and collaborating institutions have now reported an agentic robotics system that […]
Molecular Lock Design Pushes Perovskite Solar Cell Efficiency Past 26 Percent
by Riko Seibo Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 16, 2026 Inverted perovskite solar cells are widely considered the future of next-generation photovoltaics due to their high efficiency, low cost, and ease of manufacturing. A collaborative research team from the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has proposed a […]
Sensor-Free Prediction Method Guards Stirling Generators Against Piston Overshoot Damage
by Riko Seibo Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 16, 2026 Researchers have developed a fast prediction and suppression method for transient piston displacement overshoot in free piston Stirling generators, addressing a fault condition that can quickly escalate into mechanical damage in solar thermal power systems. The new approach detects dangerous overshoot without relying on displacement sensors […]
Electron Microscopy Alone Can Now Fully Characterize Organic Solar Cells
by Robert Schreiber Berlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 16, 2026 Using three-dimensional electron diffraction (3D ED), researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat (FAU) Erlangen-Nurnberg have demonstrated that electrons can provide the averaged structural information previously accessible only with X-rays. For the first time, this allows a comprehensive structural characterization of organic solar cells within a single instrument – a […]
AI Forecasting Method Lifts Solar Output by Optimizing Panel Tilt Angles
by Clarence Oxford Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2026 Researchers have developed a feature selection-based solar irradiance forecasting method to improve the operation of stand-alone photovoltaic systems. The approach uses a bidirectional long short-term memory hybrid network to forecast solar irradiance and then applies the forecasted data to estimate the optimum tilt angle of […]