All Posts Tagged With: "Solar Cells"

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Progress in the Solar Cell Two Step Method

Thermal photovoltaics are solar cells that convert the light that radiates from a hot surface into electricity. The first applications will be generating electricity from waste heat, and then the technology could be developed to generate electricity from sunlight far more efficiently than photovoltaic solar cells. In the thermal photovoltaics system, sunlight is concentrated on a device to heat it up, and the light it emits is then converted into electricity by the photovoltaic portion of the cell. That’s a very interesting combination of engineering steps.

19Feb2009 | | 5 comments | Continued
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LG Signs Contract with REC Wafer for Solar Cells Production

The five-year contract is said to have an estimated investment of more than US$340 million. LG will begin to receive wafers with limited volumes in 2010 and the delivery amount will increase over the contract period until 2014.

23Jan2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Cheap High-Efficiency Solar Cells on the Horizon

“We hope that solar cells will one day be as thin as paper and be attached to the surface of your choice,” said co-author Hsiang-Yu Chen, a UCLA graduate student in engineering. “We’ll also be able to create different colors to match different applications.”

29Nov2008 | | 5 comments | Continued
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UCLA researchers create polymer solar cells with higher efficiency levels

“Previously, the synthesizing process for the polymer was very complicated. We’ve been able to simplify the process and make it much easier to mass produce,” said Jianhui Hou, UCLA postdoctoral researcher and co-author of the study. “Though this is a milestone achievement, we will continue to work on improving the materials. Ideally we’d like to push the performance of the solar cell to higher than 10 percent efficiency. We know the potential is there.”

28Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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New high performance Solar Cells with conversion rate of 20%

Organic thin film solar cells, such as the use of plastic materials for the light soft substrate, dell Inspiron 6400 battery , dell Inspiron 640m battery , dell Inspiron 700m battery , so people look forward to its practical high. The researchers said further study is expected to develop a conversion rate of 20%, the actual investment can be used in thin film organic solar cells. Perhaps in the near future, the plastic material of solar cells will be integrated into people’s daily life.

18Nov2008 | | 0 comments | Continued

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