Solar cells and photocatalysts can be surprisingly inefficient. Despite light consisting of many wavelengths, the range that even highly efficient devices use is limited. Other wavelengths, especially ...

Researchers are reporting progress on the road to more efficient utilization of solar energy: They have developed an innovative light-harvesting system. In order to convert sunlight into electricity ...

What happens when you expose tellurite glass to femtosecond laser light? That's the question that Gözden Torun at the Galatea Lab at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, in collaboration with ...

Lighting efficiency standards continue to rise, but the Trump administration is trying to limit their scope. Here's everything you need to know. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a ...

Light supplies the energy plants need to build up biomass. A research team is researching how plants adapt their photosynthesis to changing light. They describe a key molecular mechanism that ...

Interior of US Light Energy, one of the largest solar developers in the northeastern U.S., on Aug.13 in Colonie. In 2023, the company installed 17 megawatts of solar generation at project sites, the ...

The Light + Energy Lab is a space designed for light manipulation to simulate sunlight effects on architectural models. This can be done using our two primary tools – the Diffuse Sky Simulator and the ...