MIT researchers design a solar-powered desalination device for rural India.

Defects in some new electronic materials can be removed by making ions move under illumination.

System converts solar heat into usable light, increasing device’s overall efficiency.

Ultrathin, flexible photovoltaic cells from MIT research could find many new uses.

Detailed model can help planners meet climate goals, increase resilience.

MOSAIC award spurs MIT research into concentrator solar cells that can run in shade and full sun with power control and wavelength separation.

MIT researchers recommend rapidly scaling up current silicon-based systems while continuing to work on other technologies.

Modeling electron excitation in organic photovoltaic material could change the future of solar energy.

MIT postdoc Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi charts quantum signatures of electronic transport in graphene.

Researchers combine two types of photovoltaic material to make a cell that harnesses more sunlight.