Yesterday, the Department of Energy took to social media to try and make a scandal out of a well-known fact: Solar panels do not generate power at night. It’s an old and lazy swipe that critics of renewable energy love to take, even though the people who operate our power grids know that this is the case and plan…
Above: A novel approach to a long-standing materials science challenge has birthed a record-breaking monocrystalline cadmium telluride solar cell, which shatters an efficiency record and boasts the highest voltage ever for its type of cell. Researchers led by electrical engineering Professor Yong-Hang Zhang and Assistant Professor Zachary Holman published the results of their collaboration in the…
