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The solar cell based on the flexible form could be used in applications where more expensive solar cells are currently used [source: Liu et al, Nature 2023]

Silicon flexible solar cells

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Researchers have demonstrated an innovative method for producing flexible solar cells from silicon (silicon) that are twenty-four percent more efficient than the cells known today and can still be rolled like a sheet of paper * The findings could allow the use of solar cells in applications that today use more expensive alternatives of thin surfaces.
Microcrystals formed through self-healing repaired a completely destroyed area within a halide perovskite crystal. Courtesy of the Weizmann Institute.

Solar materials capable of repairing themselves

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A stacked solar cell. Illustration: Matthew Lamb

Scientists are designing a solar cell that captures almost all of the energy of the solar spectrum

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Researchers demonstrate a bubble produced from light and used to propel micro-particles. Panel (a) shows the circular particle, with a diameter of 42 μm, and the laser beam, with a size of 405 nm, as the dark and light circles, respectively. In panel (b), 40 milliseconds later, the microcircle has traveled ten times its distance. Source: Ben Gurion University.

Researchers have developed a technique to propel microparticles using light and tiny bubbles

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Hongrui Jiang, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in his lab. Photo: Stephanie Precourt

Tiny solar cells could power personal devices

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Perovskite crystal. Photo: Shutterstock

The shining successor of silicon

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Diagram of a "solar flow cell" depicting a configuration of three electrodes: (1) lithium anode electrode, (2) counter electrode (CE), (3) and photoelectrode (PE). Current moves through a liquid in the battery called electrolyte. [Courtesy: Yiying Wu, The Ohio State University]

One device that is both a battery and a solar cell

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Solar cell farm. Illustration: shutterstock

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in increasing the efficiency of solar cells

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An electron microscope image from a previous study showing the nanoscale ridges that make up the surface of black silicon used in the production of solar cells. [Courtesy of Barron Group/Rice University]

An efficient method for producing solar cells

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solar cells. Illustration: shutterstock

Cheap and highly efficient solar cells

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Nano Electronics. Photo: shutterstock

Electronic nano-components as a basis for renewable energy

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Solar collectors farm. From Wikipedia

Technion researchers have found a way to significantly improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cells

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The state-of-the-art structure - nanocubes of silver metal scattered over a thin layer of gold. [Courtesy of the journal Nature].

Silver nanocubes for the development of solar cells

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Feidong Yang, a chemist from the Department of Materials Science at the Lorenz National Laboratory in Berkeley

A cheap method for producing solar cells from nanowires

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A team of researchers at the University of Warwick in the UK who discovered a way to produce organic solar cells

Gold electrodes for organic solar cells

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The basis of the artificial skin is a flexible organic transistor composed of flexible polymers and carbon-based materials.

Stretchable solar cells

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Stacey Bent, professor of chemical engineering, holds a quantum dot-based solar cell

A new method for making cheaper and more efficient solar cells

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A forest of molecules holds the promise of turning excess heat into electricity

Conversion of heat losses to electrical energy

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The photoelectrochemical cell built to prove the concept

A self-repairing photovoltaic cell

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This filament, which contains about 30 million carbon nanotubes, absorbs photon energy from the sun and then emits it as less energetic photons.

An innovative antenna for receiving energy from the sun

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David Reeder with a plastic solar cell

Extending the lifetime of plastic-based solar cells

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Dr. Dan Oron. Color changer

The size (of the particles) does determine (their optical properties)

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Ariel Amiri, VP of Business Development at the 'Industrial Design Balls' group

Innovative technology based on green energy: Sol-r-led has found a technological solution that will save municipalities and councils up to 80% in monthly electricity consumption

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A poly solar cell. Published on Wikimedia under the GNU license

Three new technologies guarantee efficient and cheap solar cells

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Jean Seidel and Seung Yeol Young, Lawrence-Berkeley National Institute

A new method for utilizing solar energy

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