Although widely deployed, the problems with traditional crystalline silicon photovoltaics ... thin, flexible, plastic substrate using fast and cheap manufacturing processes that are scalable.

Will Norman asks if mass-scale deployment of perovskite technology is now imminent and whether it could unseat crystalline ...

And the lower cost of producing these lightweight cells, printed on flexible plastic, means that manufacturing can remain in ...

An international research team in China has used Czochralski n-type c-Si wafers from China-based Sichuan Yongxiang to build textured wafers with a thickness ranging from 65 μm to 55 μm.

The benefits of matching a solar cell's response to the Sun's spectrum are widely used in commercially available photovoltaics. Silicon offers ... the photovoltaic manufacturing process, offer ...

Organic photovoltaics (OPV) are a class of solar cells that utilize organic materials, such as polymers and small molecules, to convert sunlight into electricity. Unlike conventional silicon-based ...

"We tested organic photovoltaics with ... but it's expensive and, like silicon, is relatively heavy and inflexible. In contrast, organic solar cells can be flexible and are much lighter.

Modern solar panels made from silicon-based photovoltaics just got some competition. Oxford University has developed a new technology using perovskites, which are more flexible and efficient.