A new class of economically viable solar power cells - cheap, flexible, and easy to make - has come a step closer to reality as a result of work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Using a powerful combination of microanalytic techniques that simultaneously image photoelectric current and chemical reaction rates across a surface on a micrometer scale, researchers at the National ...

Conventional solar, or photovoltaic (PV), cells whether arranged in "farms" or fixed to buildings, convert sunlight into electricity. But taking this increasingly valuable technology indoors could ...

A new class of economically viable solar power cells—cheap, flexible and easy to make—has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work* at the National Institute of Standards and ...

Any time you turn on a light at home or in the office, you are expending energy. But what if flipping the light switch meant producing energy too? We usually think of solar, or photovoltaic (PV), ...

(Nanowerk News) Organic solar cells may be a step closer to market because of measurements taken at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory ...