PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 26, 2024 — Photonic quantum computing company PsiQuantum, with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Mitsubishi Chemical, has launched a partnership to design energy-efficient materials on PsiQuantum’s fault-tolerant quantum computer. The joint research project to investigate the use of photochromic molecules for use in fault-tolerant quantum computing by simulating the excited states of these molecules — which have widespread industrial and residential potential applications, such as the development of...

MOSCOW, Nov. 30, 2023 — Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) have found a way to increase the yield of single-walled carbon nanotube film production. The materials are promising for solar cells, LEDs, flexible and transparent electronics,...

DEKALB, Ill., Aug. 29, 2023 — Verde Technologies Inc., a pervoskite-focused thin-film solar company, has partnered with Northern Illinois University (NIU) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to bring its perovskite solar cells to...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 20, 2023 — University of Rochester researchers have found that the use of a metal substrate can boost the photoelectric conversion efficiency of perovskites. Perovskites, a family of crystalline materials, have shown promise as a far less expensive and equally...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 20, 2021 — High-quality thin films of BaZrS3 chalcogenide perovskites, developed by an MIT research team, show promise as a new semiconductor suitable for a range of applications, including solar and green lighting. The MIT researchers made the prototypical...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., July 13, 2021 — Sandia National Laboratories will lead a center to improve the understanding of perovskite-based photovoltaic technology and determine the best tests to evaluate the lifetime of the new solar panels. The effort is funded by the Department of Energy...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 26, 2021 — A simple, synthetic process for fabricating stable perovskite solar cells has overcome a preventative challenge to large-scale production, and, as a result, to product commercialization. A team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and National Taiwan...

MEDFORD, Mass., March 17, 2021 — Light-activated composite devices developed by Tufts University researchers were shown in testing to execute precise visible movements and form complex 3D shapes. The materials performed without wires or other actuating materials or energy sources....

HOUSTON, Feb. 22, 2021 — An advancement to smart window technology incorporates luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) into window or windowpane designs. A team from Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering designed its foot-square “windows” by...

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 12, 2021 — A multi-institutional team led by professor Chunlei Guo from the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics has developed an optical coating capable of simultaneously reflecting and transmitting the same wavelength. The new class of optical...

STANFORD, Calif., Nov. 27, 2020 — An ulftrafast method for manufacturing and assembling stable perovskite solar modules has been developed at Stanford University. The technique, according to study author Reinhold Dauskardt, resolves some of the most formidable barriers to...

PARKVILLE, Australia, Sept. 9, 2020 — An Australian research team has demonstrated that the molecules 4-tert-butylpyridine (tBP) and 1-methyl-benzimidazole (NMBI) play a role of crucial importance, as optimal additives, in maximizing the performance of copper redox meditators. An...

BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. 18, 2020 — Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a blue light-emitting diode (LED) from halide perovskite, a new semiconductor material said to be cheap and easy to manufacture, overcoming a barrier that had previously prevented...

STUTENSEE, Germany, Jan. 24, 2020 — TRUMPF Hüttinger, laser and machine company TRUMPF’s high-tech division, has acquired HBH Microwave, based in Stutensee, Germany. This acquisition adds semiconductor-based, solid-state microwave generators to TRUMPF Hüttinger’s...

TROY, N.Y., Jan. 14, 2020 — Sufei Shi, an assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), is the recipient of the CAREER grant award. The National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) grant...

MÜLHEIM AN DER RUHR, Germany, Jan. 9, 2020 — In a series of field tests performed at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI-CEC), key parameters in solar panel performance were measured to gather data that can be used for choosing the most appropriate panel option for...

TALLINN, Estonia, Jan. 3, 2020 — Researchers at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) have increased the efficiency of next-generation thin-film solar cells by partially substituting copper with silver in absorber material. A thin-film solar cell consists of several thin...

Jul 25, 2019 — Perovskite semiconductors have attracted tremendous attention in recent years because of the rapid rise of perovskite solar cell efficiencies — from less than 10% to more than 20% in less than five years — and the potential for the...

Apr 1, 2019 — Perovskite semiconductors have attracted tremendous attention in recent years because of the rapid rise of perovskite solar cell efficiencies — from less than 10% to more than 20% in less than five years — and the potential for the...

ERLANGEN, Germany, Sept. 20, 2018 — Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have shown that incoming light will cause the electrons in warm perovskites to rotate, thus influencing the direction of the flow of electrical current. “Two...

OSAKA and KANAZAWA, Japan, Aug. 7, 2018 — Researchers have developed a spin coating technique to create zinc-related oxide (ZnOx, ZnOHx) ultrathin films (ceramic films) for use as buffer layers for organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. Buffer layers, also called OPV interlayers, separate...

GUILDFORD, England, July 2, 2018 — A technique for producing high-performance inverted perovskite solar cells, called solution-process secondary growth (SSG), was shown to increase the voltage of inverted perovskite solar cells by as much as 1.21 V. Inverted planar perovskite solar...

GOLDEN, Colo., Nov. 21, 2017 — The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has entered into a license agreement with MicroLink Devices Inc. to commercialize NREL's patented inverted metamorphic (IMM) multi-junction solar cells. While...

GOLDEN, Colo., Sept. 27, 2017 — A collaboration between researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne...

OKINAWA, Japan, Aug. 21, 2017 — In just seven years of development, the efficiency of perovskite solar cells has increased to the point where it rivals — and could soon overtake — the efficiency of conventional photovoltaic cells. The perovskite structure still...