TU Delft scientists used plasma treatment with boron (PTB) to build heterojunction solar cells relying on a hole transport layer made of transition metal oxide (TMO) thin films. The device showed ...

Perovskite solar cells offer high efficiency & low cost, but complex structures limit modeling. A new Python simulator enables 2D analysis of charge dynamics in intricate geometries. (Nanowerk News) ...

Recently, a team led by Prof. WANG Mingtai from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has put forward an intriguing ...

A joint research team led by Dr. Hee-Eun Song of the Photovoltaics Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (President Yi Chang-Keun, hereafter “KIER”) and Prof. Ka-Hyun Kim of ...

A new UNSW study shows that laser-enhanced contact optimization (LECO) can boost industrial TOPCon solar cell efficiency by ...

Netherlands-based research lab TNO has succeeded in applying copper electrodes to silicon heterojunction solar cells using a new screen-printing process. With this innovation, TNO says, almost the ...

Careful design of the materials in the cell stack allowed researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) of the US Department of Energy to extract a little more efficiency from their ...