If you are looking for a way to easily add a little extra juice to your batteries you might be interested in the thin-film flexible solar panels created by BougeRV. Thanks to its flexible design the ...

Combining two semiconductor thin films into a tandem solar cell can achieve high efficiencies with a minimal environmental footprint. Teams have now presented a CIGS-perovskite tandem cell that sets a ...

A new record for electrical energy generation from CIGS solar cells has been reached. Scientists have achieved a 23.64 percent efficiency. Uppsala University is the new world record holder for ...

Ascent Solar Technologies, a developer of lightweight, flexible, and durable CIGS thin-film photovoltaics, is to release a new solar module. "Titan", which is optimized for use in a space environment, ...

Ascent Solar Technologies announces 15.7% efficiency in thin-film CIGS technology, enhancing applicability for the space market. Ascent Solar Technologies announced that its thin-film CIGS ...

Swedish thin-film solar manufacturer Midsummer inked a deal with the European Union Innovation Fund grant to receive €32.3 million ($34.8 million) to pay for a third of the company’s soon-to-be-built ...

Scientists Ayodhya Tiwari and Daniel Lincot recently spoke to pv magazine about the future of copper indium gallium selenide solar tech, which could play a key role in providing flexible, lightweight ...

The Company’s Plug & FlyTM integrated thin-film solar array subsystems to generate more power - with less mass and volume requirements - outperforming heavier and costlier counterparts that space ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

The image shows a cross-section of the active layers in the thin-film solar cell, with a total thickness of no more than 3 micrometres. Using nano-XRF measured at the MAX IV facility in Lund, it is ...