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Mapping the energetic landscape of solar cells
A new spectroscopic method now makes it possible to measure and visualise the energetic landscape inside solar cells based on organic materials.
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Scientists develop better, cheaper way to make pattern metals for solar cells
Chemists at the University of Warwick have developed a better way to make patterned metals.
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Parker Solar Probe completes 2 orbits of Sun
Since NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched on Aug. 12, 2018, Earth has made a single trip around the Sun - while the daring solar explorer is well into its third orbit around our star.
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New design strategy brightens up the future of perovskite-based light-emitting diodes
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology discover a new strategy to design incredibly efficient perovskite-based LEDs with record-setting brightness by leveraging the quantum confinement effect.
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NASA’s MMS finds first interplanetary shock
The Magnetospheric Multiscale mission - MMS - has spent the past four years using high-resolution instruments to see what no other spacecraft can.
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Researchers develop method to automatically estimate rooftop solar potential
Industry figures show the global rate of solar energy installations grew by 30 percent in one recent year, and the average cost of installing solar has fallen from $7 per watt to $2.8 per watt, making rooftop solar attractive to many more homeowners.
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Magnetic plasma pulses excited by UK-size swirls in the solar atmosphere
An international team of scientists led by the University of Sheffield have discovered previously undetected observational evidence of frequent energetic wave pulses the size of the UK, transporting energy from the solar surface to the higher solar atmosphere.
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SibFU scientists discovered material that can make solar cells more efficient
Researchers at Siberian Federal University, together with colleagues from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), discovered new properties of material based on palladium, which can increase the performance of solar cells.
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Clearing up the ‘dark side’ of artificial leaves
While artificial leaves hold promise as a way to take carbon dioxide - a potent greenhouse gas - out of the atmosphere, there is a "dark side to…
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Yellow is not the new black: Discovery paves way for new generation of solar cells
A study led by KU Leuven for the first time explains how a promising type of perovskites - man-made crystals that can convert sunlight into electricity - can be stabilized.
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Treating solar cell materials reveals formation of unexpected microstructures
Recent advances in solar cell technology use polycrystalline perovskite films as the active layer, with an increase to efficiency of as much as 24.2%. Hybrid…
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‘Deforming’ solar cells could be clue to improved efficiency
Solar cells and light sensing technologies could be made more efficient by taking advantage of an unusual property due to deformations and defects in their structures.
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Canadian Solar signs electricity agreement on Alberta’s largest solar photovoltaic project
Canadian Solar Inc. has signed an agreement for the purchase of electricity from its 32 MWp/23 MWac Suffield solar facility with Direct Energy, one of North America's largest energy and energy-related services providers, and a subsidiary of Centrica PLC.
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Airbus brings a SMILE to ESA
Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency to build the European component of the SMILE satellite (Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link…
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A good first step toward nontoxic solar cells
Solar panel installations are on the rise in the U.S., with more than 2 million new installations in early 2019, the most ever recorded in a first quarter…
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Researchers recreate the sun’s solar wind and plasma burps on Earth
The sun's solar wind affects nearly everything in the solar system. It can disrupt the function of Earth's satellites and creates the lights of the auroras.