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IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Plastic Solar Cells Get a Boost by Doubling Up Scientists in Korea and California have invented a new way of boosting the efficiency of cheap plastic solar cells, making them more competitive with traditional silicon solar cells. The key is to make the solar cells in pairs.
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Chemistry World May 21, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Research shines light on perovskite solar cell manufacturing Scientists in South Korea who broke the efficiency record for a perovskite solar cell earlier this year have come up with a new method to manufacture them.
National Defense August 2008 Grace V. Jean	Harnessing the Sun's Energy Through Transparent Photovoltaics Researchers here have developed a small transparent solar cell prototype that may one day capture sunlight streaming in through a window and produce enough electricity to power homes and office buildings.
Chemistry World May 5, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Nanoholes promise solar power Silicon solar cells with arrays of nano-sized holes could outperform their nanowire-based rivals, say Chinese chemists.
Chemistry World June 19, 2014 William Bergius	Organic solar cells reach manufacturing milestone Scientists in Denmark have devised a rapid, scalable and industrially viable way to manufacture large sheets of flexible organic tandem solar cells.
Chemistry World November 7, 2012 Simon Hadlington	World's first all-carbon solar cell Researchers in the US and China have built a photovoltaic cell made entirely from carbon. The electrodes and light-active layers are made from a combination of three carbon allotropes -- nanotubes, fullerenes and graphene.
Chemistry World January 7, 2016 Matthew Gunther	Stable caesium-doped perovskites boost silicon solar cells The caesium-doped lattice also has the potential to increase the efficiency of a conventional silicon solar cell when placed on top.
Technology Research News March 12, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Cheap solar power on deck Researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara have come up with a new type of solar cell that may be much less expensive to manufacture than today's solar cells and can be improved to be nearly as efficient.
IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Dave Levitan	The Solar Efficiency Gap Companies continue to push solar-cell efficiency records toward theoretical limits. Are actual production-line solar panels keeping up?
Chemistry World September 15, 2011 Elinor Richards	Electricity - Any Time, Any Place An energy scavenger device that can convert both solar energy and movement energy into electricity to power portable electronics has been made by scientists from Korea and the US.
Chemistry World August 8, 2011 Rebecca Brodie	A Solar Torch to Fit in Your Back Pocket A solar powered torch the size of a credit card has been developed by a team of scientists from Denmark, the Netherlands and the US.
CIO August 15, 2002 Justine Brown	Portable Plastic Power What if you could power portable electronics anywhere you could access solar energy? That's the scenario two researchers at the University of California at Berkeley imagined when they developed a new generation of solar cells that combine nanotechnology with plastic electronics.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Solar Cell Doubles as Battery Scientists have designed a single, compact device that can both convert solar energy to electricity and store the electricity.
Chemistry World June 17, 2010 Hayley Birch	Keeping the heat up for super-efficient solar cells US scientists have found a way to siphon off the 'hot' electrons that are responsible for much of the energy lost in current solar cells.
Chemistry World April 4, 2010 Simon Hadlington	New electrolyte for dye-based solar cells Researchers have moved a step closer to overcoming one of the key hurdles to developing low-cost solar cells based on dye-coated titanium dioxide.
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Neil Savage	Electronics on Anything Chemical trick puts solar cells and other electronics on rice paper, Saran wrap, and more practical things, too
The Motley Fool October 18, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Sharp Magnifies Its Focus on Solar Four new initiatives could extend the company's manufacturing lead in solar cells. Investors interested in solar should keep an eye on the company.
Chemistry World February 6, 2006 Jon Evans	Head-to-Tail Monomers Improve Solar Cell Efficiency A team of researchers found that the P3HT polymer chains stacked together more tightly in high RR films, which made them absorb more light and let electrons travel more easily through them.
Technology Research News December 29, 2004	Solar Cell Teams Plastic and Carbon Researchers have fabricated an inexpensive, plastic-based solar cell that has the potential to be fairly efficient
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Neil Savage	Nanowire Silicon Solar Cell for Powering Small Circuits A new type of solar cell made from a nanometer-scale wire might one day provide an on-chip power source for nanoelectronic devices or run microscopic robots, say scientists.
Chemistry World June 27, 2011 Catherine Bacon	A Step Forward for Space Power US scientists have gained insights into how to improve polymer solar cells' stability in space to power shuttles.
Chemistry World July 20, 2015 Carolyn Devlin	Energy devices go wireless Scientists in China have developed a new method for connecting energy devices without using wires. Not only are the devices easy to make, they continue to work even when bent or twisted -- a vital trait for flexible electronics.
Chemistry World July 1, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Bendy solar cells that can take the heat Chemists in Switzerland and China have used a liquid electrolyte to make flexible solar cells that are better than current devices at withstanding heat from the sun's rays.
Chemistry World April 18, 2013 Yuandi Li	Reducing the cost of perovskite solar cells A new way of making semiconducting perovskite-based solar cells could result in photovoltaic devices that are 70% cheaper than current commercial models, say UK scientists.
Technology Research News December 31, 2003	Electroplating boosts solar cells While not yet ready for practical use, researchers find that including titania in solar cell dyes can increase efficiency.
Chemistry World January 20, 2014 James Urquhart	Tracing paper boost for solar cells A piece of transparent paper made from wood-based cellulose fibers is an unlikely addition to a solar cell that actually increases its efficiency.
Scientific American December 2008 Jesse Emspak	Chasing Rainbows: Full-Spectrum Photovoltaics From infrared to ultraviolet, a new photovoltaic material responds to the full spectrum of sunlight
Chemistry World April 30, 2014 Tim Wogan	High efficiency solar cells stack up A new high efficiency solar cell that is easier and potentially cheaper to produce than current designs has been demonstrated by US researchers.
Chemistry World September 26, 2014 Tim Wogan	Perovskite solar cells show hydrogen production promise A new, highly efficient process for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen has been demonstrated by researchers in Switzerland.
Chemistry World October 29, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Thin film perovskite solar cell passes the efficiency test A team of scientists has manufactured the first thin film perovskite solar cell with a reported efficiency that has been officially recognized by an accredited national test laboratory.
Chemistry World November 25, 2015 Jon Cartwright	Perovskite boosts silicon solar cell efficiency A UK company claims it can boost the efficiency of a silicon solar cell by 20% by adding a layer of the light-sensitive crystal perovskite.
Chemistry World August 24, 2015 Tim Wogan	Ultralight solar cells designed to drive drones An ultrathin, flexible, stretchable and lightweight 'solar foil' has been produced from perovskite solar cells by researchers in Austria.
Chemistry World March 2, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Meteoritic rise of perovskite solar cells under scrutiny over efficiencies The sun has certainly been shining for perovskite solar cells in recent years. First created in 2012, perovskite solar cells have shown great promise as an affordable alternative to other solar technologies.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Kimberly Patch	Material soaks up the sun The semiconductor indium nitride got a raw deal a few decades back when it was misclassified as a mediocre photovoltaic. It turns out the stuff could be a champ at changing sunlight into electricity. If all goes according to plan, indium nitride will make for more efficient solar cells.
Chemistry World July 24, 2006 Killugudi Jayaraman	Plastic Solar Cells Make Light Work Solar cells based on organic semiconductors instead of silicon could potentially turn wall paints into a source of electricity, but their low efficiency is a major roadblock. Scientists now believe they have a new approach to boosting the output from polymer cells.
Chemistry World April 19, 2012 Charlie Quigg	An invisible menace for solar cells US chemists have shown that trace impurities - below the sensitivity of standard characterization techniques - can halve the efficiency of bulk heterojunction solar cells.
Chemistry World May 16, 2014 Vicki Marshall	The future is lead-free for perovskite solar cells A lead-free and non-toxic alternative to current perovskite solar-cell technology has been reported by researchers in the UK: tin halide perovskite solar cells.
Chemistry World June 27, 2014 Patrick Walter	Simple substitution cuts solar cell toxicity A cheap chemical used to make bath salts and tofu looks to be the solution to cutting toxic cadmium from a promising type of solar cell.
Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Eric Smalley	Red wine mends solar cells Researchers from the University of Toledo have found a way to increase energy production using red wine.
Chemistry World January 19, 2012 Elinor Richards	Korean doors inspire new energy converter In a setup resembling traditional Korean doors, scientists from Korea have made dye-sensitised solar cells that are bendy enough to be rolled around a pen and twisted, while maintaining their energy conversion efficiency at 90% of that of the flat form.
Chemistry World March 23, 2015 Sonja Hampel	Flexible polymer threads set to light up clothing Fashions on the catwalk could soon become a whole lot funkier with the development of new light-emitting threads that can be knitted or woven into textiles.
Chemistry World July 29, 2014 Vicki Marshall	Spray-deposition steers perovskite solar cells towards commercialization A low-cost, high-efficiency technique for fabricating perovskite solar cells -- ultra-sonic spray-coating -- has been developed by a team of researchers in the UK.
Chemistry World January 19, 2012 Rebecca Brodie	Efficiently harvesting the power of the sun Scientists from Japan and India have created a dye-sensitised solar cell with the highest recorded efficiency of 11.4%, breaking the record set five years ago.
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Chemistry World May 1, 2009 Michael Gross	Efficient solar cells could work in tandem Researchers in Sweden have more than doubled the efficiency of a dye-based solar energy device.
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Richard Stevenson	Powerful PVs Approach 50 Percent Efficiency Start-up Solar Junction thinks it has the right recipe in a triple-cell scheme
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