Learn how to build a simple solar cell at home using copper tape, plastic cups, and water. This step-by-step science ...

Canadian researchers proposed a laminate-free solar module using polycarbonate instead of EVA and glass. The new encapsulation technique reportedly enables easy disassembly, reuse of solar cells, and ...

The materials in most of today's residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time. A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of ...

Researchers at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara have created the first highly transparent, plastic solar cells. The new solar cell is almost 70% transparent to visible light -- in the picture above, the ...

Printed solar cell tech keeps getting closer and closer to reality, with a Massachusetts company called Konarka Technologies today announcing that it's now able to manufacture solar cells using inkjet ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Plastic solar cells may be commercially available in five to 10 years, said a British scientist whose group announced on Monday a new understanding of how to produce the cheaper ...

National Geographic reported in January that scientists have invented a plastic solar cell that can turn the sun's power into electrical energy, even on a cloudy day. Plastic solar cells are not new.

CSIRO’s roll-to-roll solar cell printing uses “specialised carbon inks, which further reduce production costs”, said principal research scientist Dr Doojin Vak. Image: CSIRO Researchers from the ...

A team of Japan-based scientists have set a new power conversion efficiency record for all-organic solar cells, more than doubling the previous record. They say the cell was developed with rganic ...

One day, your latest gadget won't be in your pocket like a phone or even wrapped around your wrist like a smartwatch, but stuck to your skin like a transparent plaster. Researchers at the University ...