As the price of silicon panels has continued to come down, we’ve reached the point where they’re a small and shrinking cost of building a solar farm. That means that it might be worth spending more to ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany, have succeeded in developing solar cells based on III-V semiconductors that can achieve an efficiency of over ...

In the ongoing quest for more efficient solar cells, the most current published record for tandem perovskite solar cells is 32.5 percent. In a new paper, researchers report on the improvements in ...

Northwestern University researchers have raised the standards again for perovskite solar cells with a new development that helped the emerging technology hit new records for efficiency. The findings, ...

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The sight of solar panels installed on rooftops and large energy farms has become commonplace in many regions around ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rhett is a DC based executive coach who covers entrepreneurship. Does that efficiency rate seem low for an average customer ...