New sustainability research garners support from Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office. |Medium Read

The 2018 American Solar Challenge will be a real test for a young team.|Short Read

‘We estimate that a finished solar cell could be about ten times cheaper than an equivalent gallium arsenide cell.’ |Medium Read

The multi-layered organic solar cells will be able to curve in clothing or be transparently built into windows.|Medium Read

Students put up solar power systems and learned the local issues of a Native American reservation while on spring break.|Medium Read

A solar cell combined with a camera sensor collects photons to provide electricity.|Medium Read

Buildings, clothing could generate power.|Medium Read

In the 2017 Van Vlack Lecture, Ramamoorthy Ramesh will use Energy as a “Clear and Present” example of where we, as scientists, engineers, young and not-so-young, need to rise up and meet the challenges that we are faced with.|Short Read

Just 10 percent shade cover can drop electricity production by 50 percent. A new U-M-led project aims to change that.|Short Read

Nanotechnology could reduce the cost of the most expensive part of a solar thermal power plant by 75 percent.|Medium Read

By borrowing from kirigami, the ancient Japanese art of paper cutting, researchers at the University have developed solar cells that can move with the sun.|Medium Read

Kirigami could be the key to flat, lightweight solar cells that can track the sun across the sky.|Medium Read