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Researchers Develop Mechanism for Self-Healing of Perovskite Solar Cells

Researchers from Monash University, the University of Oxford, and the City University of Hong Kong have developed a “self-healing” mechanism for perovskite...

July 2, 2024

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Arshreet Singh

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Technology
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Researchers Power Photo–Battery with Multi-Junction Organic Solar Cell

A team of scientists at the University of Freiburg’s Cluster of Excellence Living, Adaptive, and Energy-Autonomous Materials Systems and the University of Ulm...

November 23, 2023

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Staff

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Solar

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Technology
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Fraunhofer Integrates Solar Cells into Car Hoods for Onboard Power Generation

Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Fraunhofer ISE) has integrated 120 PERC (passivation emitter rear contact cell) shingle solar cells into a passenger...

August 24, 2023

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Arjun Joshi

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Solar

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Technology
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Researchers Develop Robot to Study Degradation in Perovskite Solar Cells

Researchers at the North Carolina State University have developed RoboMapper, a robot designed to identify new perovskite materials with enhanced stability and solar...

August 7, 2023

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Gourav Mishra

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Solar

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Technology
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IIT Scientists Claim 26% Efficiency for Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Solar Cell

Scientists at the National Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Education of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) claimed to have achieved a power...

July 5, 2023

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Gourav Mishra

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Solar

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Technology
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Researchers Achieve 20.15% Efficiency with Indium Sulfide Layered Perovskites

In a collaborative experiment to increase the power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells, a group of scientists introduced an electron transport layer made of...

June 16, 2023

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Gourav Mishra

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Solar

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Technology
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Daily News Wrap-Up: States Levying Water and Air Cess on Power Generation Illegal

The Ministry of Power has asked all state governments and union territories to withdraw any tax or duty on electricity generation, especially from hydro projects, after...

May 2, 2023

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Mercom Staff

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Daily Wrap-up
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Daily News Wrap-Up: India’s Wind Installations Grew by 168% YoY in Q1 2023

Wind capacity installations in India rose 168% year-over-year to 737.9 MW in the first quarter of the calendar year 2023. Installations grew 222% quarter-over-quarter...

April 13, 2023

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Mercom Staff

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Daily Wrap-up
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Daily News Wrap-Up: SECI’s Empanelment Tender for 5 MW of Solar Projects

Solar Energy Corporation of India has invited bids to empanel vendors for developing up to 5 MW of rooftop and ground-mounted solar power projects. The projects will be...

March 31, 2023

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Mercom Staff

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Daily Wrap-up
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Researchers Say Solid Electrolytes Lend Thermal Stability to Li-Ion Batteries

Researchers have engineered a new composite solid-electrolyte by introducing a new material that they claim provides thermal stability to solid-state lithium-ion...

March 13, 2023

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Gourav Mishra

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Disordered Multi-Metals in Electrolyte Can Boost Battery Performance

Solid-state batteries with a disordered arrangement of metals in electrolytes enhance the performance of the battery by increasing the flow of ions which create an...

February 28, 2023

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Gourav Mishra

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Energy Storage

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Technology
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Australia Awards AU$29.5 Million to University for Solar Technology Research

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has awarded AU$29.5 million (~$19.5 million) to the University of New South Wales’ (UNSW) School of Photovoltaic and...

January 6, 2023

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Gourav Mishra

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Finance and M&A

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Solar
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Australia Funds Research to Commercialize Silicon-Perovskite Tandem Tech

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has awarded AU$2.78 million (~$1.9 million) in funding to the University of Sydney which has partnered with solar...

January 4, 2023

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Gourav Mishra

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Other

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Renewable Energy
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Scientists Claim 22.5% Efficiency in a Perovskite-Silicon Tandem Cell of Large Area

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems (ISE) collaborated with industry partners to achieve an efficiency of 22.55% in a perovskite-silicon...

December 29, 2022

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Gourav Mishra

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Solar

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Technology
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Scientists Use Silver in Tandem Solar Cells to Achieve Record Efficiency

Scientists at Empa, Swiss Laboratories for Material Science & Technology, said they have developed a low-temperature technique using silver to produce a bifacial...

December 22, 2022

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Gourav Mishra

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Solar

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Technology

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