Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in California. He was 88. Winston was a University of Chicago professor in the ...

A solar panel on a rooftop in Stanford, California, kept producing electricity well after sunset. No battery was involved.

A research team led by scientists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and partners has pushed a monolithic ...

When a team of German physicists set their simulations running on one of Europe's most powerful supercomputers, they were ...

A new model shows how transport resistance limits solar cell efficiency and how better fill factor predictions could help us develop more powerful photovoltaics One light bulb turned on (Courtesy: ...

A display that quietly gathers energy from room light sounds a bit like science fiction, but the underlying physics has pointed in that direction for years. The basic idea is not hard to grasp.

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have demonstrated the non-destructive, room-temperature deposition of amorphous indium zinc oxide (a-IZO) transparent electrodes (TEs) for ...

A new study of perovskites suggests the very imperfections once thought to hinder performance may help power the future of ...

Researchers in Germany and Spain have developed a fast vacuum coating process capable of ...

Molecular vibrations can "catapult" electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second‬ ‪— much faster than previously thought, a new study shows. The findings could help scientists find ...