Chapin immediately dropped selenium research and dedicated his time to improving the silicon solar cell. His theoretical calculations of its potential were encouraging.

Research teams have announced that the use of nickel and selenium in the production of solar cells could make them less expensive and more efficient.

Chinese scientists have built a selenium solar cell with an alloyed selenium-tellurium absorber, which reportedly reduces interfacial defects. Under standard illumination conditions, the device ...

By embedding the element selenium in zinc oxide, researchers have made a relatively inexpensive material that could be promising for solar power conversion by making more efficient use of the sun ...

Danish researchers have built a selenium solar cell with the highest open-circuit voltage ever reported. They said that with further improvements in the optoelectronic quality of selenium, the ...

The license from NASA will allow Centauri to develop and commercialize advanced solar cells that are specifically designed for terrestrial and extra-terrestrial applications.

The solar industry has come of age, developing into a technology that is rapidly replacing coal, oil, and natural gas ...

Selenium-alloyed cadmium telluride solar cells can achieve 22.1% solar cell efficiency, but why? asked a team from Loughborough and Colorado State Universities – particularly when cadmium telluride on ...

Alloying [selenium] with tellurium, which has the same crystal structure and [has a] narrow bandgap, can tune the bandgap and increase the melting point, thus expanding the absorption spectrum and ...

The selenium solar cells of the late nineteenth century could only convert .4 percent of the incoming sunlight into electricity, hardly enough to power anything electric.

By embedding the element selenium in zinc oxide, a team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has made a relatively inexpensive material that could be promising for solar ...