With [Debasish]’s entry for The Hackaday Prize, an Arduino MPPT Solar Charge Controller. This Maximum Power Point Tracker uses a buck converter to step down the voltage from the solar cell to ...

When you think of solar panels, you usually picture giant cells mounted to face the sun. But what if "solar" cells could be ...

With a solar cell plugged into its dedicated socket, SODAQ claims to draw 100 times less power to connect things than an equivalently sized Raspberry Pi, so your Pi-sized projects will be much ...

When you get down to it, solar cells aren’t much different from the diodes and transistors in your parts drawers or inside your beloved electronics. They’re both made of silicon or some other ...

Japanese company develops a solar cell with record-breaking 26%+ efficiency A group of researchers funded by a Japanese government program develops “industrially compatible” cells.

Silicon-based solar cells have a theoretical efficiency limit of around 30 per cent, but adding a perovskite layer enables new designs to harvest more energy. Close. Advertisement.

The cell converts the ultra-violet portion of the sun’s spectrum into electricity using a junction made from p-type NiO and n-type TiO 2 – the latter a well-known photo-electric material. Unlike more ...