WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers have shown how to modify commercially available silicon wafers into a structure that efficiently absorbs solar energy and withstands the high temperatures needed for ...

Researchers led by Yuan Yang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Columbia Engineering, along with colleagues at the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University, and ...

Completely powered by solar energy, the so-called photothermocatalytic reactor incorporates a spectrally selective solar absorber to maximize the generation of solar-thermal heating. The modular ...

The selective solar absorber (SSA) developed by the researchers appears black and thus absorptive under sunlight (as shown on the photograph on the left). However, for thermal radiation, it behaves ...

Researchers have succeeded in creating a ' perfect solar energy absorber ' by processing the metal surface with a laser. By using this, it is possible to create a more ideal solar power generation ...

New York, NY--August 28, 2017--Researchers led by Yuan Yang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Columbia Engineering, along with colleagues at the Department of Chemistry at ...

Solar-energy researchers are eyeing a number of key ways to bolster the efficiency of current solar cells, one of which to harvest energy not only from sunlight but also the heat emanated from the sun ...

Researchers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have developed a selective solar cell based on an ultra-thin n-i-p absorber layer stack and a thin-film spectral selective filter. They claim it can ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers have shown how to modify commercially available silicon wafers into a structure that efficiently absorbs solar energy and withstands the high temperatures needed for ...

Researchers have developed a simple, low-cost, and environmentally sound method for fabricating a highly-efficient selective solar absorber (SSA) to convert sunlight into heat for energy-related ...