Oxford PV has recently achieved a groundbreaking milestone in solar panel efficiency. Their 60-cell residential solar panel has reached a conversion efficiency of 26.9%, surpassing the current best ...

NREL has updated its Best Research-Cell Efficiency Chart. The tool highlights the highest confirmed conversion efficiencies of research cells for a range of PV technologies. “Everything up to the end ...

The US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has updated its Best Research-Cell Efficiency Chart with the inclusion of a new cell category – Hybrid Tandems. “This category ...

Oxford PV, a spin-off from the University of Oxford, says it’s achieved the world record for the most efficient solar panel. In collaboration with Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy ...

Sebastian Bonilla receives funding from UK Research and Innovation, The Royal Academy of Engineering, and The Leverhulme Trust. The sight of solar panels installed on rooftops and large energy farms ...

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Perovskite solar cells are a promising alternative to traditional silicon solar panels but have poor durability. Professor Ted Sargent, Research associate professor Bin Chen, Postdoctoral fellows ...

With the growth of portable power stations as solar generators in the last decade, interest and competition has led to huge improvements in solar panel performance. When I began playing around with ...