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Original Technorati articles tagged “solar cells”

• in Green
  Clean Energy After All is Not So Clean
  Reducing carbon foot print
  by amohit / on Feb 11, 2013
• in Technology
  Researchers At Stanford Discover New Solar Cells That Can Change The World
  Solar cells at the doorstep of energy revolution
  by amohit / on Dec 2, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “solar cells”

 

• Sharp Develops Concentrator Solar Cell with World’s Highest Conversion Efficiency of 44.4%*1

  
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  Sets New Record with Concentrator Triple-Junction Compound Solar Cell. Sharp Corporation has achieved the world’s highest solar cell conversion efficiency*2 of 44.4%, using a concentrator triple-junction compound solar cell. These solar cells are used in a lens-based concentrator system that focuses sunlight on the ...
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• Firm bets solar phone screens will be the answer to slow-moving battery tech

  
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  Startup SunPartner Group, located in France, wants to challenge our reliance on batteries, and aims to attach a smartphone screen that collects solar power and delivers it to the phone. Their transparent overlay has already been developed and is currently undergoing testing.
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• Solar Cells. Concerns grow worldwide over quality issues.

  
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  Just as solar cells are on the verge of widespread adoption,it appears that the $77 billion solar industry maybe facing a quality crisis. There are increasing reports, worldwide,of panel failures as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Bosch’s Safer PV Technology

  
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  First off, solar systems aren’t killers, but in certain—very unusal situations, they can be lethal. Once a PV module is connected to wiring, it’s outputting electricity when light hits it, and when the array’s wiring is compromised, or the grid is compromised, PV modules can pose a shock hazard. Solar ...
  6 days ago

• Solar News Roundup (13 Stories)

  
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  Following my bike news roundup (15 stories) and EV news roundup (12 stories) , here’s a quick roundup of 13 solar power stories we haven’t covered but thought you shouldn’t miss. Enjoy! Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Consortium Launched Veterans Get Hooked On Solar Ivanpah Solar Project Is Over 92% ...
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• New Class of Solar Cell Hits Efficiency Record

  
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  A new type of solar cell, perovskite cells, from the tech startup Oxford PV, has just hit a new efficiency record of 15.4%, bringing them one step closer to a low-cost and efficient solution that can be integrated into glass building facades. The latest iteration of the company’s flat junction perovskite solar ...
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• Other materials stories that may be of interest

  
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  Berkeley Lab researchers increase NMR/MRI sensitivity through hyperpolarization of nuclei in diamond Today’s nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance imaging technologies, like quantum information processing and nuclear spintronic technologies, are based on an intrinsic quantum property of electrons and ...
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• Day 5: PACRIM rocks, ACerS rocks!

  
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  Most of the presentations I attended in the past three days were given by researchers from universities and national labs, which often were more about basic science and less about profitability and commercial applications. I thought it would be nice to get some perspectives from industrial researchers.   With this in ...
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• New Class Of Solar Cell Reaches New Efficiency Breakthrough

  
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  Oxford PV have announced that they have achieved a new efficiency high-watermark for their new photovoltaic technology of 15.4%, continuing the march towards scale-up and commercialisation. Spun off from Oxford University in an attempt to put all of founder Dr. Henry Snaith’s intellectual property under one roof ...
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• Masdar Buys Inkjet Printer for Solar Cells

  
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  The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MIST) in Abu Dhabi, which is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has purchased a Fujifilm Dimatix DMP283 inkjet printer – the learning institute’s first step towards printing its very own solar cells! For the longest time, the United ...
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• Design Inspiration from Nature – Biomimicry for a Better Planet

  
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  People have been turning to nature for inspiration to help them solve problems for millions of years. From buildings and bridges to materials and medicine – examining the design of nature has aided in the development of almost every aspect of our lives, and most of us – often without realizing – benefit from ...
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• FUTUREWATCH: Block Copolymer Solar Cells

  
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  A small team of researchers at the Rice and Pennsylvania State universities has developed a new solar cell that is based on organic block copolymers. The research and the new solar cell have led to the possibility of an entirely new class of solar panels. The organic block copolymers are compounds that self-arrange ...
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• New Process Allows for Increased Efficiency, Lower Cost for Solar Panels

  
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  Solar power is a renewable source of energy but still can be expensive to use so any cost reduction is good. Solar engineers from UNSW have developed an innovative method to dramatically improve the quality of low-grade silicon, promising to significantly improve electrical efficiency and reduce the cost of solar ...
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• Organic electronics inch forward one printing method at a time

  
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  Through innovations to a printing process, researchers have made major improvements to organic electronics – a technology in demand for lightweight, low-cost solar cells, flexible electronic displays and tiny sensors. read more        
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• Organic electronics inch forward one printing method at a time

  
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  Through innovations to a printing process, researchers have made major improvements to organic electronics – a technology in demand for lightweight, low-cost solar cells, flexible electronic displays and tiny sensors. read more
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• Organic polymers show sunny potential

  
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  A new version of solar cells created by laboratories at Rice and Pennsylvania State universities could open the door to research on a new class of solar energy devices. The photovoltaic devices created in a project led by Rice chemical engineer Rafael Verduzco and Penn State chemical engineer Enrique Gomez are based ...
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• FUTUREWATCH: Self Assembling PV Cells

  
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  Newly published research from Rice University and Penn State show that some polymer-based organic PV devices can self-assemble. The research could make producing organic PV far easier and cost effective in the future. The research, led by Rice’s Rafael Verduzco and Penn State’s Enrique Gomez—both chemical ...
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• VPlus Emergency Camping Tent

  
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  With all the natural disasters occurring one by one, no one knows when such would strike in their area. However with all that aside, here is an interesting tent design that should come in handy – emergency or not. The VPlus Emergency Camping Tent is actually an emergency relief tent that comes equipped with energy ...
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• New Low Cost Solar Cell Assembles Itself

  
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  The price of solar panels has been sinking like a stone for the past few years, and that could be just the beginning of a low cost solar power future. When that happens, it will be partly due to the development of solar cells made of organic materials, which are less efficient but far cheaper than the current gold ...
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• The Skinny On Aussie Solar Printer: It’s Wide

  
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  Two years after they embarked on a solar-cell printing initiative, Australian researchers are showing off cells the size of A3 paper – that’s about 16.5 by 11.7 inches – spit out by a $200,000 machine. The researchers in the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) – a collaboration between CSIRO, ...
  3 weeks ago

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