Researchers in the Middle East claim to have identified the optimal parameters for the commercial production of perovskite-silicon tandem solar modules across several locations. Their analysis showed ...

For decades, the solar industry has run on one material: silicon. It works, it is cheap, and it keeps getting slightly better ...

In the first article of a new series on solar manufacturing facilities around the world, pv magazine presents the polysilicon facility of United Solar in Oman. The plant has a production capacity of ...

Multicrystalline silicon remains the cornerstone of photovoltaic device production, benefitting from a balance between performance and cost. The manufacturing process typically involves directional ...

Research appearing in Communications Materials has shown that perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are remarkably resilient to dust during production, challenging the industry belief that high-performance ...

For most of the solar industry’s modern history, progress has been framed as a story of physics. Higher efficiencies came from better cell architectures, improved passivation schemes, and optimization ...

As solar booms, end-of-life panel recycling is crucial. Learn why recovery of aluminum, glass, and silicon is key to truly ...

For decades, copper was the material the solar industry knew it needed but could not manufacture at scale. That barrier has ...