9+ hour, 42+ min ago   (381+ words) “The scientific gap addressed in the present work is not the individual use of PVT, heat pumps, refrigerants, or TiO₂-based materials, but the experimentally resolved interaction between passive face thermal regulation, active refrigerant-based heat extraction, and seasonal refrigerant response within…...

13+ hour, 57+ min ago   (75+ words) With excursions into space becoming more frequent, and the reasons behind them more commercial, the industry is exploring ways to generate electricity in space at lower cost and larger scale. And these requirements make ‘terrestrial’ silicon PV technology difficult to…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (285+ words) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Integrated Energy Systems Office (IESO) and Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation are seeking innovative techniques to move space based solar power forward. The groups are launching a $12 million funding opportunity open to research…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (79+ words) Before the Section 232 tariff announcement, many module buyers were anticipating a roughly $0.03/W to $0.05/W impact, with $0.06/W to $0.07/W generally seen as an upper-end outcome. A consensus formed around a more stringent pricing impact. While the ultimate clearing price…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (371+ words) Researchers at China’s Nanjing University have fabricated a perovskite-organic tandem solar cell featuring a bottom organic subcell that uses a low-bandgap (LBG) acceptor to enhance near-infrared (NIR) absorption while reducing voltage losses. The researchers said previous studies have used various…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (416+ words) According to the OPIS Global Solar Markets Report released on Sept. 8, Free-On-Board (FOB) China M10 and 210R wafer prices fell to $0.149/pc and $0.156/pc, respectively, down 1.97% and 2.50% week on week. The wafer price rally seen in mid-August has failed to sustain momentum,…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (419+ words) Rocket Lab Corporation has announced the production release of its inverted metamorphic (IMM) Apex solar cell, a high-efficiency space power solution designed to eliminate reliance on germanium substrates and avoid critical-mineral supply chain bottlenecks. In an IMM structure, the semiconductor layers…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (332+ words) Japanese petroleum company Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd. has established a development laboratory for space-grade copper indium gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar cells in the United States. According to an update published by the company, the laboratory, located at the University of California,…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (323+ words) The researchers built the monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell with a crystalline silicon (c-Si) bottom cell and an inverted p-i-n perovskite top cell. The silicon subcell features intrinsic amorphous silicon (a-Si(i)) and doped nanocrystalline silicon oxide (nc-SiOₓ(n)) passivating contacts,…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (230+ words) A research team in China has developed a two-step technique to recycle Tedlar/polyethylene terephthalate/Tedlar (TPT) PV backsheets into hierarchical porous carbon for use as supercapacitor electrodes. The researchers tested the resulting material as an electrode in laboratory cells…...