National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) looks ahead: The last news from solar power research divisions

New measurement capability supports the development of high-efficiency solar cells for concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) application     more...

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) looks ahead: Capabilities for modeling and analyzing the concentrating solar power technologies

NREL has the following capabilities, which include software development, for modeling and analyzing a variety of concentrating solar power technologies: Solar Resource Maps; Optical Analysis and Modeling; Advanced Coatings Modeling and Analysis; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD); Systems Analysis; Concentrating Solar Deployment     more...

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) looks ahead: capabilities to research, develop and test concentrating solar power technologies

To research, develop, and test a variety of concentrating solar power technologies, NREL features the following laboratory capabilities: High-Flux Solar Furnace (HFSF); Large Payload Solar Tracker; Advanced Optical Materials Laboratory     more...

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) outstanding scientific profiles: Garry Rumbles

Dr. Garry Rumbles is a Research Fellow at the U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Dr. Rumbles joined NREL in 2000 and is widely recognized for his research in photochemistry and photophysics of conjugated molecular systems     more...

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) outstanding scientific profiles: Arthur J. Nozik

Dr. Arthur J. Nozik is a Senior Research Fellow at the U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Professor Adjoint in the Chemistry Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder     more...

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) outstanding scientific profiles: Timothy J. Coutts

Dr. Timothy Coutts is currently a Research Fellow in the National Center for Photovoltaics at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. His research areas include the following     more...

Argonne National Laboratory Fundamental and Applied Science Achievements: Controlling nanoparticles to receive new energy technology materials

A team of researchers from the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has demonstrated a method that could produce cheaper semiconductor layers for solar cells.     more...

Argonne National Laboratory fundamental and applied Science Achievements: New fluorescent plastics solar cell technology

For years, scientists have dealt with the problem of trying to increase the efficiency and drive down the cost of solar cells. Now researchers have hit upon a new idea - trying to give the light collected by solar cells     more...

Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM: Life Cycle of CdTe Photovoltaic’s

Several studies have been carried out over the last years to investigate the environmental profile of CdTe photovoltaic’s and energy pay-back time. These studies were mainly based on the module production data of First Solar     more...

Applied Science Factor at MIT: Research groups to develop more efficient solar cells and solid state lighting

The aim of these working groups is to understand and control coherence in excitonic antennas and exciton polaritons – coherent combinations of excitons and photons     more...