Manufacturers typically guarantee that solar panels will endure the elements for at least 25 years before experiencing significant drop-offs in power generation, but recent reports highlight a trend ...

A new class of economically viable solar power cells - cheap, flexible, and easy to make - has come a step closer to reality as a result of work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

The sun is about to undergo unremitting scrutiny. About six times each minute of every hour for at least five years, a soon-to-be launched NASA satellite will measure the sun's quirky—and sometimes ...

Using a powerful combination of microanalytic techniques that simultaneously image photoelectric current and chemical reaction rates across a surface on a micrometer scale, researchers at the National ...

(Nanowerk News) Organic solar cells may be a step closer to market because of measurements taken at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory ...

Any time you turn on a light at home or in the office, you are expending energy. But what if flipping the light switch meant producing energy too? We usually think of solar, or photovoltaic (PV), ...

Conventional solar, or photovoltaic (PV), cells whether arranged in “farms” or fixed to buildings, convert sunlight into electricity. But taking this increasingly valuable technology indoors could ...