| The author designed this tester for IR-remote controls as an excuse to experiment with a GoldCap. Of course there are simpler ways to test a...
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| Over 90 % of the worlds solar cells are made from silicon but they are not particularly efficient at converting light to energy. They are ma...
| The latest version of a solar powered aircraft made a successful maiden flight in Switzerland earlier this week. Solar Impulse 2 is designed...
| The organic solar film producer Heliatek based in Dresden, Germany have announced an improved type of solar cell which gives a transparency...
| A group led by Hendrik Bolink of the Instituto de Ciència Molecular (ICMol) at the University of Valencia together with colleagues at the Éc...
| Researchers Steve Dunn at Queen Mary University and James Durrant at Imperial College London have been experimenting with a new design of th...
| Researchers at Stanford University (USA) have developed novel peel-and-stick thin-film solar cells. Unlike standard thin-film solar cells, t...
| Heliatek has announced a record breaking 12 % cell efficiency with its organic solar cells in tests performed in cooperation with the Univer...
| MIT engineers have proposed a new way to improve solar cell performance by using special ‘funnels’ to capture photons. The funnels would be...
| In cooperation with the Industrial Technology Center of Fukui Prefecture (Japan), Sphelar Power Corporation has prototyped an energy-harvest...