Parking lots and garage rooftops offer expansive, un-shaded and unobstructed spaces ideal for housing commercial-scale solar energy systems. For years, solar photovoltaics (PV) have proven to be a ...

The ribbon solar sail will be a solar sail design using a thin film strip embedded with diffractive gratings. It is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) project. This configuration leverages ...

We are excited to share groundbreaking advancements in the realm of solar energy technology, particularly highlighting an emerging thinner-film solar cell: Cu 2 BaSn(S,Se) 4. This innovative solar ...

A recent study in Scientific Reports presented a graphene-based metamaterial as a solar absorber. The structure consisted of three layers: aluminum (Al) as the resonator, titanium nitride (TiN) as the ...

UK-based insulation specialist and roofing materials provider SIG Building Solutions has developed a new solar canopy support structure that is reportedly an ideal solution for east-west oriented ...

The new floating PV structure removes traditional maintenance walkways between module rows to enable more solar modules to be installed per hectare. Ciel & Terre has also developed a motorized trolley ...

Two-dimensional (2D) materials and nanomaterials have emerged as transformative candidates for next-generation photovoltaic (PV) and solar energy conversion ...