For a household in Ghana without electricity, a tiny solar panel paired with a battery that provides indoor lighting and charges mobile phones can save the equivalent of $70 per year, exceeding the ...

Linköping-based Epishine has launched a developer kit for the evaluation of its organic PV (OPV) technology, which it claims can replace or augment batteries in small indoor environmental sensing, ...

From Wi-Fi-connected home security systems to smart toilets, the so-called Internet of Things brings personalization and convenience to devices that help run homes. But with that comes tangled ...

Conventional solar cells are just that: photovoltaic devices which, by their physics, extract and transform energy from the sun. Their sensitivity and efficiency are matched to the optical-energy ...

As the world moves towards green energy, especially solar energy, the technology is changing in interesting ways. While originally, solar panels were installed for energy collection from sunlight in ...