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.

In dye-sensitized solar cells, photons knock electrons from the dye into a thin layer of titanium dioxide, which relays them to the anode. Hu's group found that adding graphene to the titanium ...

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 ...

To help remedy this, researchers working at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have created semi-transparent, efficient, low-cost perovskite solar cells with graphene electrodes.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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