Scaling up perovskites for potential widespread use in solar cells has been a challenge due to arising defects. Yi Yang, postdoctoral fellow; Ted Sargent, Lynn Hopton Davis and Greg Davis Professor of ...

Darth Vaders dark eyes inspired a new nanotechnology-based black silicon that makes solar cells more efficient. The resultant ...

The advantages of cheaper, faster and more precise crystal formation are clear to see. Crystals are used everywhere, from ...

A new kind of ‘camera’ is poking at the invisible world of the human body – and it’s made from the same weird crystals that once shook up solar energy. Researchers at Northwestern University and ...

The immune system has a tough job: When a tiny virus invades one of our cells, that cell must detect it and, within minutes, ...