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NREL updates solar cell efficiency chart with tandem devices
NREL updates solar cell efficiency chart with tandem devices
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US energy research lab NREL has updated its cell efficiency chart to include hybrid and tandem perovskite cells. The Best Research-Cell…
European project to boost indoor solar cell use for the IoT
European project to boost indoor solar cell use for the IoT
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A SEK38m (€3.2m) project in Sweden is aiming to boost the use of indoor organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells for the…
Delivering power through the soil for IoT sensors
Delivering power through the soil for IoT sensors
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Researchers in the US have developed a technique to send energy through the soil to power wireless sensors in the…
Thinner electrodes and 20% efficiency for Amorton indoor solar cells
Thinner electrodes and 20% efficiency for Amorton indoor solar cells
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Panasonic Europe has launched its latest series of Amorton solar cell for indoor use, with 20% efficiency and smaller size.

Panasonic boosts efficiency of indoor solar cells
Panasonic boosts efficiency of indoor solar cells
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Thinner electrodes and increased layer thickness enable technology breakthroughs for amorphous silicon solar cells offering over 20 percent higher efficiency.
Cuprous oxide for clean hydrogen generation
Cuprous oxide for clean hydrogen generation
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European researchers are developing low-cost light-harvesting semiconductors to convert water into clean hydrogen fuel. The cuprous oxide semiconducting materials are cheap, abundant and non-toxic, but their performance does not come…
Mercedes factory digital energy twin boosts power efficiency
Mercedes factory digital energy twin boosts power efficiency
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Siemens and Mercedes-Benz have created a ‘Digital Energy Twin’ to improve the integration of energy efficiency and sustainability measures in factory designs and upgrades. The Digital Energy Twin reduces early…
Battery-free MEMS sensor to monitor French bridges
Battery-free MEMS sensor to monitor French bridges
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A consortium is to use a MEMS sensor from SilMach for battery-free monitoring of bridges in France. The SIRCAPASS (Surveillance of Road Infrastructures by Passive Sensors) project is to deploy…
Saildrone looks at carbon impact of marine drones
Saildrone looks at carbon impact of marine drones
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Saildrone has released its first annual Carbon Impact Report from using uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs). The report shows that in 2022, US developer Saildrone avoided 99.9% of comparable ocean data…
Silicon Labs launches first energy harvesting wireless chips, teams with e-peas
Silicon Labs launches first energy harvesting wireless chips, teams with e-peas
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Silicon Labs has launched its first wireless microcontroller optimized for energy harvesting and worked with Belgium PMIC supplier e-peas on shields for its development kit. The xG22E family is the…
Solar cell material has 190% quantum efficiency
Solar cell material has 190% quantum efficiency
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Researchers from Lehigh University in the US have developed a material that can drastically increase the efficiency of solar panels. A prototype using the 2D material as the active layer…
Battery cells charges from thermal difference
Battery cells charges from thermal difference
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Researchers in the US have developed a new type of energy harvesting battery cell for the Internet of Things (IoT). The pyroelectrochemical cell (PEC) developed by a team from the…
Second ST energy deal highlights sustainable fabs challenge
Second ST energy deal highlights sustainable fabs challenge
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STMicroelectronics has signed a long term renewable energy supply deal with Centrica Energy in Denmark that highlights the challenges of sustainable fabs The 10 year deal with Centrica is the…
CEO interview: Geoffroy Gosset of e-peas  
CEO interview: Geoffroy Gosset of e-peas  
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E-peas in Belgium has raised €17.5m to scale up its energy harvesting chip business. CEO and co-funder Geoffroy Gosset talks to Nick Flaherty at eeNews Europe about the plans, including…
Dracula, ST team on energy harvesting modules
Dracula, ST team on energy harvesting modules
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Dracula Technologies in France has adapted its Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) technology for the latest STMicroelectronics ultra-low power microcontrollers. The Dracula Layer OPV module has been teamed with the STM32U0 microcontrollers for…
Ambiq, Invensense team for energy harvesting reference design
Ambiq, Invensense team for energy harvesting reference design
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Ambiq and InvenSense have teamed up on a reference design that harvests energy from movement and other sources. The HarvestKit energy harvesting reference design compbines the Ambiw Apollo3 Blue low…
e-peas raises €17.5m for energy harvesting PMIC
e-peas raises €17.5m for energy harvesting PMIC
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Belgian chip designer e-peas has raised €17.5m for its energy harvesting power management IC (PMIC). The funding round for the energy harvesting technology developed by e-peas was led by Otium…
Vacuum boost for tandem perovskite solar cells
Vacuum boost for tandem perovskite solar cells
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A study in Germany has shown that vacuum processes can speed up the production of lightweight, low cost perovskite solar cells. The study by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)…
Stacked solar cell to power the eye
Stacked solar cell to power the eye
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A researcher in Australia is developing a stacked solar cell that can be implanted into the eye to provide power to implants. The focus for the solar cell is on…
Efficient startup raises US$16 million for processor
Efficient startup raises US$16 million for processor
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Efficient Computer (Pittsburgh, Penn.) has raised US$16 million in seed funding to introduce a processor architecture that it claims is up to 100x more energy efficient than general-purpose CPUs on…
Record 27.1% efficiency for three layer perovskite solar cell
Record 27.1% efficiency for three layer perovskite solar cell
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Researchers in Singapore have developed a new three layer, triple junction tandem solar cell that gives a record efficiency. The team at Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS)…
Telefonica highlights World Energy Efficiency Day
Telefonica highlights World Energy Efficiency Day
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Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica has detailed some of the moves it has taken to reduce power consumption across its fixed and wireless networks. Telefonica says it has reduced energy consumption…
Ablic looks for European energy harvesting partners
Ablic looks for European energy harvesting partners
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Ablic in Japan is looking for global partners for its Clean-Boost thermoelectric energy harvesting technology outside Japan. ABLIC was originally the semiconductor division of Seiko Instruments, became independent and started…
Wide bandgap technology is key for residential string inverters
Wide bandgap technology is key for residential string inverters
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Solar power is currently one of the fastest-growing electricity sources in the United States with residential solar installations growing exponentially in recent years, says Damijan Zupancic, Application Marketing Manager Solar…
Epishine adds Nanopower to power indoor solar cell
Epishine adds Nanopower to power indoor solar cell
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Epishine has signed a deal with Nanopower Semi around an ultra low power controller chip. This follows deals with low power microcontroller startup Onio and Powerfilm Solar in the US.
US subsidies bring down European solar plant
US subsidies bring down European solar plant
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Swiss solar panel maker Meyer Burger is to close its solar panel plant in Freiburg, Germany to focus on subsidies available in the US. The company is convening an extraordinary…
Power-first: Some thoughts on ‘drowsy logic’ chip design
Power-first: Some thoughts on ‘drowsy logic’ chip design
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Giovanni Lostumbo, an IT design and energy-in-design specialist based out of Savanna, Illinois, USA, provides some thoughts and references on power-saving in chip design.   Abstract Power-efficiency has been an…
Ultra-thin wireless pacemaker is powered by light
Ultra-thin wireless pacemaker is powered by light
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Researchers at the University of Chicago has developed a lightweight wireless temporary pacemaker that can be powered by light. The wireless pacemaker uses a one micron thick membrane that can…


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