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 ...

As their name suggests, concentrated solar power (CSP) systems concentrate light from the sun onto a small area, where it is converted to heat. Although this heat is sufficient for electricity ...

If there's one thing most people know about solar cells, it's that they are too expensive. Now, MIT researchers think they may have found a way to double the performance of solar arrays with cheap ...

Most concentrators tend to be complex systems that use special lenses, curved mirrors, and other optical components with a “nonzero” focal length. This means that there must be enough distance–an air ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tamarac, Fla. — Arch Aluminum & Glass Co., Inc. has developed new solar mirror manufacturing techniques that deliver lower cost and more efficient concentrator photovoltaic units to the renewable ...

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 ...

A Canadian pediatrician has designed and implemented a solar-powered device that delivers life-saving concentrated oxygen to children with severe pneumonia in Uganda. The device provides oxygen via ...

SolFocus, a solar company with roots at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Park, said that it closed $25 million in financing that it will use to increase production of its solar concentrator technology.