A team of researchers at the University of Houston has developed a novel solar energy harvesting system that has broken the efficiency record of all existing technologies and could possibly be deployed to use solar power 24/7 . It is well established that solar energy is the most abundant form of renewable energy available to us.

    Innovations in solar energy harvesting systems mean that we can harvest a fair percentage of sunlight that is received upon Earth and efforts are ongoing to increase this value every day all over the world. Last month, it was reported that improvements using perovskites to make solar cells can help break the 30 per cent energy conversion barrier of solar cells. And now, the research conducted at the University of Houston throws open the possibilities of the use of solar cells round the clock.

   Conventionally used solar thermophotovoltaics (STPV) are designed with certain tweaks to improve their....