While most of this has focused on the material used to make the solar cell, researchers at JMU looked at the problem from a different angle—the light-harvesting system in solar cells.

Researchers are reporting progress on the road to more efficient utilization of solar energy: They have developed an innovative light-harvesting ... making solar cells relatively bulky and heavy.

A new solar technology could help us dramatically change how we harvest light from the Sun, the scientists behind it say. Solar cells are expected to be one of the major ways that we move towards ...

New research suggests that building tiny domes into the surface of organic solar cells could boost their efficiency by up to two-thirds, while capturing light from a wider angle. Solar cells are ...

Researchers in Germany have developed a groundbreaking new light-harvesting system that could drive a huge leap in solar cell efficiency by absorbing light across the entire visible range.

The tech builds on lowcost dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs), which emerged in the 1990s as a way to harvest energy from low-intensity indoor light. These cells are slower at converting light ...

The maximum absorption wavelength of silicon solar cells (SSCs) is approximately 1100 ... It is estimated that unabsorbed near-infrared (NIR) light energy accounts for about 20% of the total ...

Here’s how it works. A new solar cell technology designed to recharge devices such as remote controls by harvesting ambient indoor light was just unveiled. The technology was showcased by ...

The Erwin Schrödinger Prize is an outstanding appreciation of this work." What would a perfect solar cell look like? Besides a black visual nature for optimal light-harvesting, the perfect solar cell ...

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The structural formulas of the four merocyanine dyes (left) that form the new light-harvesting system URPB ... are therefore required – making solar cells relatively bulky and heavy.

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