Researchers working with copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cells reported a 20.4 percent efficiency result on flexible polymer films, a level that underscores how far high-performance thin ...

Swedish thin-film solar manufacturer Midsummer has secured its largest-ever order for production equipment, covering a complete solar cell factory. It follows an initial order in May 2025 for a 15 MW ...

Swedish thin-film solar manufacturer Midsummer has received a follow-up machinery order worth SEK236 million (US$25.5 million ...

Researchers in Japan have achieved a 12.28% efficiency in a copper gallium selenide solar cell, the highest reported for indium-free wide-bandgap chalcogenide absorbers in the 1.65–1.75 eV range. The ...

Scientists at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST) have set ...

The Quantum Dot Enhanced Lightweight Solar Cells (QDELS) project has a total budget of €7.5 million. Image: Midsummer. Swedish thin-film solar cell company Midsummer has been awarded €2.8 million ...

The marine solar panel market is projected to reach $5 billion by 2035, growing at a CAGR of 13.1% over 2025-2035, and Ascent Solar Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTI) could be one t ...

KIER achieves world’s highest efficiency of 23.64% with flexible perovskite/CIGS thin-film tandem solar cell The Korea Institute of Energy Research (President Yi Chang-keun, hereinafter referred to as ...

Researchers from Humboldt University Berlin and HZB have developed a tandem solar cell combining a perovskite-based top cell with a CIGS (copper, indium, gallium, and selenium) bottom cell. By ...

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