Graphene layer could allow solar cells to generate power when it rains. Solar energy is on the rise. Many technical advances have made solar cells quite efficient and affordable in recent years.

Due to its unique characteristics, graphene has received interest for its potential application in the development of solar cells. Indium tin oxide and silicon are currently utilized to make solar ...

Now an MIT team has developed solar cells that are not only invisible, but flexible as well, thanks to electrodes made of – what else? – graphene. Organic solar cells may not be as efficient ...

Now, engineers have developed a new electrode that could make them more stable, using a protective layer of "graphene armor." In just 10 years or so, perovskite solar cells have advanced so fast ...

However, by creating a solar cell using everyone's favorite wonder material, graphene, MIT scientists might have found a cheaper and more malleable alternative to indium tin oxide. Though the ...

A researcher at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU) has developed the first-ever made semitransparent perovskite solar cells with graphene as electrode. With simple processing ...

While silicon has long been the standard for commercial solar cells, new research from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Spain has shown that graphene could prove far more efficient ...

An international research group has unveiled a heterojunction solar cell based on graphene-oxide (GO) and silicon with a large area of 5.5 cm 2. GO is a compound of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen ...

A new device that combines graphene with special metallic nanostructures could lead to better solar cells and optical communications systems. That is the claim of researchers in the UK who have ...

Find out how solar cells power a good portion of homes today—and how they might power almost everything in the future.

In the case of this latest solar cell demo, engineers from South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) demonstrated how graphene’s useful combination of strength ...

In order to reduce the cost per watt and improve watt per gram utilization of future generations of solar cells, reducing the active absorber thickness is a key design requirement. This is where novel ...