
New analysis of 2D perovskites could shape the future of solar cells and LEDs
An innovative analysis of two-dimensional (2D) materials from engineers at the University of Surrey could boost the development of next-generation solar cells and LEDs.
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An innovative analysis of two-dimensional (2D) materials from engineers at the University of Surrey could boost the development of next-generation solar cells and LEDs.
Mar 17, 2021

Quantum dots are manmade nanoparticles of semiconducting material comprising only a few thousand atoms.
Mar 15, 2021

Photovoltaics decisively contributes to sustainable energy supply. The efficiency of solar cells in directly converting light energy into electrical energy depends on the material used.
Mar 15, 2021
Clenera, LLC is pleased to announce that as of March 8, 2021, the 127.5 MWdc Wapello Solar photovoltaic project in Louisa County, Iowa has been delivering energy to the grid.
Mar 15, 2021

Magnetic reconnection refers to the reconfiguration of magnetic field geometry. It plays an elemental role in the rapid release of magnetic energy and its conversion to other forms of energy in magnetized plasma systems throughout the universe.
Mar 15, 2021
New light-directed materials developed by researchers at Tufts University promise to power smart solar panels that automatically follow the sun's path across the sky.
Mar 12, 2021

The efficiency of solar cells can be increased by exploiting a phenomenon known as singlet fission.
Mar 11, 2021

Energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have been used in our everyday life for many decades.
Mar 11, 2021

Zipping through space at close to the speed of light, Solar Energetic Particles, or SEPs, are one of the main challenges for the future of human spaceflight.
Mar 11, 2021

A critical ingredient for auroras exists much higher in space than previously thought, according to new research in the journal Scientific Reports.
Mar 10, 2021

When NASA's Parker Solar Probe sent back the first observations from its voyage to the Sun, scientists found signs of a wild ocean of currents and waves quite unlike the near-Earth space much closer to our planet.
Mar 10, 2021

White Pine Renewables is pleased to announce the completion of the Healdsburg Floating Solar Project.
Mar 8, 2021

Thousands of panels glinting in the sun stretch into the sea off Singapore, part of the land-scarce city-state's push to build floating solar farms to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Mar 7, 2021

The source of potentially hazardous solar particles, released from the Sun at high speed during storms in its outer atmosphere, has been located for the first time by researchers at UCL and George Mason University, Virginia, USA.
Mar 4, 2021

About 17 years ago, J. Martin Laming, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, theorized why the chemical composition of the Sun's tenuous outermost layer differs from that lower down.
Mar 3, 2021

Osaka University researchers employed machine learning to design new polymers for use in photovoltaic devices.
Mar 3, 2021