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• 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”

 

• Solar Cell Material Created From Microwave Oven

  
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  Another fun solar science story, this one via the University of Utah : A small, prototype solar cell that uses CZTS, a photovoltaic semiconductor that University of Utah metallurgists produced in an old microwave oven that once heated student lunches. Image Credit: Lee J. Siegel, University of Utah University ...
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• Nanotechnology Can Make Solar Cells More Efficient

  
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  Renewable EnergyGaining Efficiency via Nanotechnology: Current solar-panel technologies are not highly efficient in converting the sun’s energy into electricity for consumer use. As the article says: “The light glinting off the surface of this solar photovoltaic cell signifies lost efficiency. Scientists are ...
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• Researchers Use Microwave Oven to Produce Solar Cell Material

  
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  Metallurgists at the University of Utah have fabricated a nanocrystal semiconductor using a common household microwave oven and abundant and cheap metals, which could lead to advances in PV solar cells, LED lighting, and heat-to-electricity applications. The researchers were able to construct CZTS photovoltaic ...
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• Fluorescent Dye Increases Solar Cell Efficiency by 38%

  
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  The more recent innovation in polymer solar cells adds a layer of a fluorescent organic dye, squaraine, to boost the amount of light that gets absorbed by the cells, increasing their power conversion efficiency by 38%. Researchers at Yale used polymer solar cells for their project, which have the advantage of being ...
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• The fluorescent future of solar cells

  
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  For some solar cells, the future may be fluorescent. Scientists at Yale have improved the ability of a promising type of solar cell to absorb light and convert it into electrical power by adding a fluorescent organic dye to the cell layer. This squaraine dye boosts light absorption and recycles elec, improving the ...
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• The First Leg of the First Solar-Powered Airplane Flight Across America has Been Completed

  
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  Landing lights blazing, Solar Impulse touches down in Phoenix last Friday after completing the first leg of its flight across America (photo: solarimpulse.com/F. Merz).   Bertrand Piccard, the first person to fly a hot-air balloon non-stop around the world, is at it again.  With his partner, André Borschberg, he ...
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• Commercialization of Polymer Solar Cell: Giant Leap Forward

  
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  A polymer solar cell is a type of thin-film solar cells made with polymers that produce electricity from sunlight by the photovoltaic effect. Most current commercial solar cells are made from a highly purified silicon crystal. The high cost of these silicon solar cells and their complex production process has ...
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• Solar Energy Powered Socket by Kyuho Song & Boa Oh

  
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  We’re always looking for new eco ways to get an energy and the following device developed by Kyuho Song & Boa Oh offers it. Called “Window Socket” it’s a direct plug socket that uses solar energy. Simple in design, the plug just attaches to any window and does its job intuitively. At the moment it’s [...]
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• Other materials stories that may be of interest

  
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  New mechanism converts natural gas to energy faster, captures CO 2 Chemical engineering researchers have identified a new mechanism to convert natural gas into energy up to 70 times faster, while effectively capturing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. “This could make power generation from natural gas both ...
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• New Technique Identifies Manufacturing Residue, Improves Solar Cell Efficiency

  
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  Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory discovered that the efficiency of solar cells is reduced by traces of residue from the manufacturing process of organic photovoltaics. Solar cells based on organic polymers, or the so-called organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs), are known to be much cheaper to make than the ...
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• New Discovery Dramatically Increases Efficiency of Low Grade Silicon

  
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  A recent discovery from engineers at University of New South Wales (UNSW) could reduce the cost of solar panels by improving the quality of low-grade silicon. Silicon is an incredible material that has enabled the development of the flourishing solar panel industry, but it’s also quite expensive, which consequently ...
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• Recyclable Solar Cells on the Way

  
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  We’ve already covered several hurdles that solar power needs to overcome before it can be a widespread energy option for consumers. Well, researchers at Georgia Tech University are trying to leap over yet another obstacle. You see, although solar power provides a green alternative to other energy sources, the ...
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• Hi-Tech Spit And Polish Improves Solar Cell Efficiency

  
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  Along with the well-known enemies of solar cell efficiency such as dust and pollen, a known unknown recently popped up when researchers began to realize that traces of residue left over from the manufacturing process can reduce the efficiency of solar cells, long before they are exposed to the harsh realities of the ...
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• Solar — A Disruptive Technology (Graph)

  
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  This article was originally published on Solar Love . I recently ran across this interesting graph on reddit : Click here to embiggen . The title of the article in which the graph was housed (similar to mine above) was: “ Solar Energy: This Is What A Disruptive Technology Looks Like .” I think the ...
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• Microwave oven cooks up solar cell material

  
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  University of Utah metallurgists used an old microwave oven to produce a nanocrystal semiconductor rapidly using cheap, abundant and less toxic metals than other semiconductors. They hope it will be used for more efficient photovoltaic solar cells and LED lights, biological sensors and systems to convert waste heat to ...
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• Scientists detect residue that has hindered efficiency of promising type of solar cell

  
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  Drivers who have ever noticed a residue on their windshields after going through a car wash will sympathize with nanoscientist Seth Darling’s pain. Darling and his colleagues at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have worked for years to develop a new type of solar cell known as organic ...
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• Goodbye Silicon, Hello Graphene

  
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  Silicon, the second most abundant element in the earth’s crust, and eighth most abundant in the entire universe, may have just taken a backseat to a lesser known element: Graphene. One of silicon’s best uses is in solar cells, though that may all change soon . According to MIT, Graphene has the potential of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Solar News Roundup (SunEdison & Foxconn Link Up, Solar Junction Going To Space…)

  
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  Solar news, galore. Check ‘er out: Fox Energy, Foxconn Subsidiary, To Supply SunEdison With Solar Modules Manufactured In Mexico Study Finds Wind-Solar Hybrid Power Plants Are Twice As Efficient Solar Junction To Provide Solar Cells For European Space Agency Intersolar North America To Put More ...
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• New material approach should increase solar cell efficiency

  
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  A University of Illinois research group brought together aspects of condensed matter physics, semiconductor device engineering, and photochemistry to develop a new form of high-performance solar photocatalyst based on the combination of the TiO2 (titanium dioxide) and other “metallic” oxides that greatly enhance ...
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• Blowing Beyond the Solar Cell Limit

  
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  The Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit asserts that the ultimate solar cell conversion efficiency can never exceed 34% for a single optimized semiconductor junction.  Researchers at MIT have shown they have a way to blow past that limit.  That will raise a cheer to an industry in real need of a major boost. ...
  4 weeks ago

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