7+ hour, 12+ min ago   (381+ words) “The scientific gap addressed in the present work is not the individual use of PVT, heat pumps, refrigerants, or TiO₂-based materials, but the experimentally resolved interaction between passive face thermal regulation, active refrigerant-based heat extraction, and seasonal refrigerant response within…...

11+ hour, 26+ min ago   (75+ words) With excursions into space becoming more frequent, and the reasons behind them more commercial, the industry is exploring ways to generate electricity in space at lower cost and larger scale. And these requirements make ‘terrestrial’ silicon PV technology difficult to…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (328+ words) All three events have been running for decades, which shows both the longstanding importance of power systems to space operations and the depth of expertise that has developed around them. However, production capacities for III-V solar devices remain quite limited....

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (371+ words) Researchers at China’s Nanjing University have fabricated a perovskite-organic tandem solar cell featuring a bottom organic subcell that uses a low-bandgap (LBG) acceptor to enhance near-infrared (NIR) absorption while reducing voltage losses. The researchers said previous studies have used various…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (419+ words) Rocket Lab Corporation has announced the production release of its inverted metamorphic (IMM) Apex solar cell, a high-efficiency space power solution designed to eliminate reliance on germanium substrates and avoid critical-mineral supply chain bottlenecks. In an IMM structure, the semiconductor layers…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (323+ words) The researchers built the monolithic perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell with a crystalline silicon (c-Si) bottom cell and an inverted p-i-n perovskite top cell. The silicon subcell features intrinsic amorphous silicon (a-Si(i)) and doped nanocrystalline silicon oxide (nc-SiOₓ(n)) passivating contacts,…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (211+ words) Two case studies — a 368 kWp coloured façade in Amsterdam and Vienna’s Floridsdorf metro station — illustrate the aesthetic-performance trade-off in practice, including the finding that structural (interference-based) colouration losses run 5–20%, versus 20–50% for absorbing pigments. For FPV, the report highlights how strongly…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (458+ words) Pile load testing can therefore be particularly valuable for utility-scale PV projects. Static axial tension and pullout tests can establish actual load-displacement behavior, allowing geotechnical and structural engineers to optimize pile lengths rather than relying solely on conservative correlations. With…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (282+ words) The initiative targets cadmium telluride (CdTe) and copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) technologies, while the ability to process amorphous silicon (a-Si) modules would be considered an advantage. The deadline for submissions is Oct. 21, 2026. Only candidates that participate in the CEI…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (568+ words) A new SINTEF Industry study estimates secondary silicon recovered from end-of-life crystalline silicon PV modules could support 35.6 GW to 62.9 GW of new solar manufacturing capacity in the European Union by 2040, though researchers say Europe’s limited ingot and wafer industry remains…...