Dr. Shuaifeng Hu, a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford, holds a mounted piece of his team's photovoltaic coating. Credit: Martin Small/University of Oxford Researchers in England have created an ...

For architects looking to build structures that are sustainable and efficient, today’s solar-reflective coatings offer a powerful, cost-effective option. Many of the benefits of solar-reflective ...

Researchers from Australia’s Western Sydney University have created a reflective coating for solar tiles to reduce the operating temperatures of tiles by up to 11 C, while increasing their electrical ...

Today’s modern solar panels are made from silicon-based photovoltaics, but a new technology from Oxford University based on perovskites could make them more flexible and more efficient. At only one ...

We've been using solar-powered calculators since the 1970s. Why can't the same general idea drive gadgets like tablet computers? Ubiquitous Energy says it can. The Cambridge, Mass. company is ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a transparent coating, an organic polymer called PEDOT. That could mean solar panels that are easier to manufacture and make installing on roofs even simpler. The ...

Perovskite is quickly gaining on silicon in the solar cell field, but it has one major drawback – durability. Now, a new treatment has been shown to keep perovskite solar cells working at 99% of their ...

Stanford engineers have developed a transparent silicon overlay that can increase the efficiency of solar cells by keeping them cool. The cover collects and then radiates heat directly into space, ...

Snow is a challenge to solar panels. But not anymore. This snow-friendly solar technology is going to shift things for solar ...

Trapping light with an optical version of a whispering gallery, researchers have developed a nanoscale coating for solar cells that enables them to absorb about 20 percent more sunlight than uncoated ...