Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are a promising class of devices designed to harvest diffuse solar radiation by employing a transparent matrix embedded with luminescent materials. These ...

Exowatt sees this technology as simple and almost infinitely scalable. Simply adding more containers to the generator creates more electricity. In parts of the world that are consistently sunny, the ...

A Dutch-Australian research team has developed a 1 cm3 luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) device, equipped with 20%-efficient bifacial silicon PV cells, which can be used and assembled in several ...

When looking at next-generation renewable technologies, you’ll hear a lot of claims about how cheaply they can create electricity. Usually the figures hover around 10 cents per kilowatt-hour, which is ...

Researchers at Stanford University have created a glass pyramid optical concentrator that concentrates light on solar cells, regardless of the light incidence angle. “It’s a completely passive system ...

Even with the impressive and continuous advances in solar technologies, the question remains: How can we efficiently collect energy from sunlight coming from varying angles from sunrise to sunset?

Since its invention in the 1970s, the luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) has aimed to enhance solar energy capture by using luminescent materials to convert and concentrate sunlight onto ...

Plans for a huge concentrated solar thermal project near Port Augusta dealt new blow, this time with new of an Australian company put into administration.