“That is why organic solar cells can be very flexible and lightweight,” he explains. The team uses π-conjugated polymers as the ‘p-type’ electron-donating material in an OPV. For an ...

Lightweight, robust, radiation-resilient photovoltaics are critical technologies for many aerospace applications. OPV cells ...

NASA has already been testing the use of bendable solar cells, though those peak at around 17.6% efficiency. Korean researchers have been working on organic solar cells with elastic properties for ...

Light, Flexible and Radiation-Resistant: Organic Solar Cells for Space Jan. 10, 2025 — Radiation testing suggests that solar cells made from carbon-based, or organic, materials could outperform ...

(This relative inefficiency compared to that of fossil fuels is part of the reason why solar cells still only account for less than 0.1 percent of the energy used in the U.S.) The electric field ...

Eight months ago, a state-funded French research institute and Japanese textiles company Toyobo announced they would join forces to develop superior organic solar cells for indoor applications.

Researchers in Singapore used a biomass-derived polymer to increase the efficiency of hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite ...

Researchers developed a method to recycle all parts of a solar cell repeatedly without environmentally ... with the waste of silicon panels. That's why old solar panels end up in the landfill.

“However, we remained puzzled as to why ... organic semiconductors and perovskite materials, has greatly advanced biosensors, optoelectronic devices such as photodetectors and solar cells ...

Excitons, encountered in technologies like solar cells and TVs, are quasiparticles formed by an electron and a positively charged "hole," moving together in a semiconductor. Created when an electron ...