The ribbon solar sail will be a solar sail design using a thin film strip embedded with diffractive gratings. It is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) project. This configuration leverages ...

A research team from the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) and the School of Optical and Electronic ...

(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from institutions in Germany and Switzerland has shown that band structure engineering is possible when designing organic semiconductors. In their paper ...

Manorga Solar has developed a new steel structure designed for ground-mounted solar power plants. The Solterra system is specifically designed for projects requiring ...

French floating PV specialist Ciel & Terre has unveiled its new floating solar system, WattRack. Designed to build high-power floating solar plants, WattRack is a semi-rigid system that removes ...

The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the ...