The intermittent nature of solar energy poses challenges to grid stability, making accurate ultra-short-term solar irradiance ...
Solar cells are made from semiconductors whose ability to respond to light is determined by their band gaps (energy gaps). Different colors have different energies, and no single semiconductor has a ...
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Japan boosts solar hydrogen by capturing longer wavelengths of sunlight
Japan is pushing solar hydrogen into a new phase by teaching its materials to drink in colors of sunlight that used to go to ...
(Nanowerk News) The sunlight received by Earth is a mixed bag of wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet to visible to infrared. Each wavelength carries inherent energy that, if effectively harnessed, ...
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New solar material pushes efficiency past the “theoretical” limit
Solar power has long been constrained by a supposedly unbreakable ceiling on how much sunlight a panel can turn into ...
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Japan: Scientists boost solar hydrogen output by capturing longer sunlight waves
Researchers have created a dye-sensitized photocatalyst that captures long-wavelength visible light to double solar hydrogen ...
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Harnessing long-wavelength light for sustainable hydrogen production
A novel dye-sensitized photocatalyst developed at Science Tokyo enables the capture of long-wavelength visible light for ...
Solar filters emit a red light over tomato plants growing in a research field at UC Davis in 2022. The work further tests the findings of a UC Davis study showing plants in agrivoltaic systems respond ...
Researchers in Canada have conducted a series of simulations to understand how spectrum splitters may raise the efficiency of two-terminal tandem solar cells and have found that efficiency gains may ...
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