Tag: Photovoltaics

  • Nation & World

    Two Harvard teams win energy grants

    Two Harvard-led teams are among the 66 selected by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) that will receive a total of $130 million in funding through its OPEN 2012 program, which is designed to support innovative energy technologies.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Taking Charge with cellphones

    Harvard architecture student Jeffrey Mansfield launches a project designed to combine solar power and smartphones to protect the Amazon basin, link forest entrepreneurs, and give Amazonian people a voice in the world.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Electrical conductor sparks interest

    Harvard and Stanford chemists have created and purified an organic semiconductor with excellent electrical properties, simultaneously confirming a screening process being used to find new photovoltaic materials.

    4 minutes