The ribbon solar sail will be a solar sail design using a thin film strip embedded with diffractive gratings. It is a NASA ...

Floating structure design for offshore PV Researchers at the Norwegian institute Sintef are testing a special floating structure that Equinor wants to deploy in offshore waters.

Scientists from Japan, Saudi Arabia and the United States have investigated existing back-contact perovskite solar cell architectures and have proposed a strategy to help reach commercial production.

Researchers have developed a transparent solar concentrator that can be directly coated onto architectural glass, enabling colorless and unidirectional solar energy collection. This new design, based ...

My design would generate more energy and power in a similar footprint as a single solar panel installation." The invention provides a new solar frame structure with a natural, earthy appearance.

Princeton researchers led by electrical engineer Stephen Chou have found a simple and economical way to nearly triple the efficiency of organic solar cells, the cheap and flexible plastic devices that ...

New type of solar structure cools buildings in full sunlight Date: March 27, 2013 Source: Stanford School of Engineering Summary: Scientists have designed an entirely new form of cooling panel ...

By imitating the microscopic structure of a butterfly wing, a group of researchers designed a more efficient solar cell.

In this work, we consider a novel experimental approach to improving the performance of thin-film (1.5 micrometer) crystalline silicon-based solar cells that combines the broadband response of ...

Proposed design could double the efficiency of lightweight solar cells for space-based applications Date: June 7, 2023 Source: Cell Press Summary: When it comes to supplying energy for space ...