Study assesses solar photovoltaic technologies
MIT researchers recommend rapidly scaling up current silicon-based systems while continuing to work on other technologies.
MIT researchers recommend rapidly scaling up current silicon-based systems while continuing to work on other technologies.
Modeling electron excitation in organic photovoltaic material could change the future of solar energy.
MIT postdoc Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi charts quantum signatures of electronic transport in graphene.
Researchers combine two types of photovoltaic material to make a cell that harnesses more sunlight.
Service to faculty, collaboration with industry are hallmarks of campus-based Materials Processing Center at MIT.
MIT's associate dean for innovation is inventing at the nanoscale.
Mechanical engineering professor pursues a vision of a cleaner, more energy-efficient world.
New system aims to harness the full spectrum of available solar radiation.
New field of "strain engineering" could open up areas of materials research with many potential applications.
New approach developed at MIT could generate power from sunlight efficiently and on demand.
Laser doping method could enable new infrared imaging systems.
Thermophotovoltaic system converts high heat to narrow spectrum tailored to solar cell profile
Study shows that factors other than wages dominate trends in photovoltaic costs, raising the prospect of competitive manufacturing anywhere.
Atom-thick photovoltaic sheets could pack hundreds of times more power per weight than conventional solar cells.
MIT team finds that the ratio of component atoms is vital to performance.