Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2026 Organic semiconductors are thin, flexible materials that already underpin many consumer displays, and researchers now report a strategy that lets these materials both emit light efficiently and harvest energy in the same device. Their work targets multifunctional organic components that can act as both organic light emitting diodes and organic photovoltaic elements without sacrificing performanc

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2026 Penn Engineers have proposed a solar-powered orbital data center architecture that could scale to meet growing demand for artificial intelligence computing without drawing electricity from terrestrial grids. The concept uses flexible, tether-based structures in orbit to host thousands of computing nodes for AI inference, relying on established space tether technology rather than massive rigid pl

Toledo OH (SPX) Jan 30, 2026 A solar energy generation technology once considered limited in its potential is poised for significant growth in the United States. That's the conclusion of a team of scientists who analyzed the outlook for cadmium telluride photovoltaics in research published in the peer-reviewed journal Joule. University of Toledo physicists including Dr. Michael Heben, a Distinguished University

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 29, 2026 Sunlight carries a wide range of wavelengths, but many solar harvesting technologies only tap a portion of that spectrum, limiting their efficiency. Researchers have now shown that tiny self-assembled gold spheres, known as supraballs, can capture nearly all wavelengths in sunlight, including those that conventional photovoltaic materials often miss, and can significantly increase solar energy a

Mundra, India (AFP) Jan 25, 2026 The race for green energy is on. India, driven by soaring electricity demand and a push to reduce reliance on China, is rapidly producing solar panels, fuelling a booming yet uncertain market. At the Adani Group's factory in Mundra, in India's western state of Gujarat, assembly lines churn out photovoltaic panels around the clock. Up to 10,000 a day come off the line, with most sent stra

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 A new scientific review describes how a little understood class of lithium ion battery cathode materials could support safer, higher energy storage while easing dependence on critical metals such as cobalt and nickel. Researchers synthesized and analyzed recent global advances in cation disordered rocksalt, or DRX, cathode materials, which are emerging as a promising alternative to the lay

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 21, 2026 Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have developed a single organic molecule that naturally forms the internal p/n junctions needed for converting sunlight into electricity, offering a potential shortcut to more efficient organic thin film solar cells. The study shows how careful molecular design and self assembly can generate stable nanoscale p/n heterojunctions without the need to physica

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Surveys at one of the largest solar energy facilities in the Mojave Desert indicate that a rare annual plant is not only persisting but flourishing under a construction approach designed to preserve desert soils and seedbanks. Researchers monitoring the Gemini Solar Project northeast of Las Vegas documented a sharp increase in the number and size of threecorner milkvetch plants two years after p

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has reported a materials breakthrough that moves oxide based all solid state batteries closer to commercial deployment. The work targets the high cost and fabrication challenges of garnet type solid electrolytes, a key component in non flammable next generation lithium batteries designed to eliminate fire and explosion risks. Al

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 Researchers at the School of Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have developed a robust coating layer that significantly improves the operational stability of perovskite solar cells while maintaining high efficiency. In accelerated tests simulating intense midday sunlight at 85 C, the coated cells retained more than 95 percent of their initial power conversion effi

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2026 A new study shows that perfectly symmetric materials can generate strong photocurrents when their surfaces are engineered to host special electronic states, overturning a long held limitation in photovoltaic design. The work points to fresh strategies for both solar energy conversion and ultrafast spintronic technologies by exploiting the physics of surfaces rather than relying only on bulk crys

London, UK (SPX) Jan 14, 2026 Scientists have reported a new way to make perovskite solar cells both highly efficient and markedly more stable, directly tackling one of the main obstacles to bringing this emerging photovoltaic technology into large scale deployment. Perovskite semiconductors have been widely promoted as candidates for the next generation of solar power because they can be processed at low temperatures