Imagine a car whose windows and sunroof can help top up its battery while parked under the sun, or a pair of smart glasses whose lenses can harvest light to power built-in electronics.

A tiny change at the solar cell surface could unlock much higher efficiency, stronger stability, and more reliable performance than ever expected.

A single photon goes in. Roughly 1.3 usable energy carriers come out. That is the result reported in May 2026 by a team at Kyushu University and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, who used a quantum ...

The transparent four-terminal perovskite solar cell employs an ion-modulated spiro-MeOTAD hole transport layer, which passivates interfacial defects, enhances carrier dynamics, and allows for a ...

Energy harvesting of all types generates significant interest and attention, as it has that aura of getting a little bit of ...

Imagine a display that harvests ambient light when it is not actively in use, offsetting some of its own energy consumption. Materials physics shows that this is possible; the same semiconductor ...

A group of researchers led by China's Lingnan University has fabricated an inverted perovskite solar cell through what they called a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) stabilization strategy. Inverted ...

Energy can never be created or destroyed. That's basic Physics 101. You simply cannot create energy out of thin air. Yet researchers at Kyushu University in Japan say they have developed a technology ...

Perovskite solar cells, PSCs, have emerged as one of the most promising renewable energy technologies of the past decade. Besides their ...

In a study published in Nature, researchers at Linköping University have developed a method to recycle all parts of a solar cell repeatedly without environmentally hazardous solvents. The recycled ...