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Following the trend of green revolutionary concepts, experts have scaled up efforts to introduce new materials, like black silicon or solar paint, whose results look good on paper, but their actual level of efficiency proved outside the labs is still far from making them truly competitive with traditional sources of ... |
19 January 2012
09:24 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the University of Georgia (UGA) announce the development of an amazing new material, which is capable of emitting light in near-infrared wavelengths for prolonged periods of time. The interesting thing is that it does so after being exposed to sunlight for just a minute.
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21 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratories (ANL) and Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) announced the development of improved luminescent solar concentrators (LSC), devices that could make solar energy economically feasible once and for all. At this point, this form of g... |
2 November 2011
12:27 GMT |
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Researchers discovered that some of the coldest regions on Earth are the best candidates to apply the benefits of alternative energy coming from the sun, throughout solar panel installations. The list of unfriendly, cold locations includes the Himalayas and southern Andes. The explanation for this choice is quite sim... |
24 October 2011
03:55 GMT |
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University of Michigan (U-M) Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science professor Jay Guo and his team announce the development of a new type of screen pixel. The device also contains a solar cell, and could easily be used to boost the energy efficiency of electrical devices.
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7 October 2011
15:01 GMT |
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By using unusual types of materials and innovative arrangements, investigators at the Arizona State University (ASU) were recently able to set the basis of a new solar cell design. The experts behind this work say that their new solar cells will soon exceed the performances of any other.
Electrical engineering Ph... |
7 October 2011
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US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) physicists argue that they may have just developed a new approach to increasing the efficiency of solar cells that convert light into electricity. The team here managed to develop a way to give light “amnesia.”
At this point, conver... |
27 September 2011
10:44 GMT |
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Improving the efficiency of solar cells is one of the long-term goals scientists in this field of research have, but thus far their efforts on this front have been slow. Now, a company in the United States plans to take the technology one step further, by integrating it with the methods used to create optical fibers.... |
19 September 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Thanks to an innovation by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, experts are now capable of printing advanced photovoltaic circuits unto unconventional substrates such as paper and fabric. If this technology is scaled up and developed further, it could soon become possible to p... |
12 July 2011
05:08 GMT |
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Two separate teams at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, have developed a synthetic leaf each. The devices are capable of removing oxygen from water, a process similar to its natural counterpart from which researchers drew inspiration – photosynthesis.Both devices are capable of usin... |
9 June 2011
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Next week, the European Space Agency (ESA) will organize the ninth European Space Power Conference (ESPC), a meeting of space power system professionals around the world. Innovations and other advancements in these fields will be presented at the meeting.Power systems are arguably the most important part of any space... |
1 June 2011
10:26 GMT |
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Experts at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are the proud owners of a new sensor station that can easily monitor carbon dioxide concentrations in the air above the QUT Gardens Point.The entirely solar-powered station can measure concentrations of atmospheric CO2, and draw daily charts describing its evol... |
30 May 2011
05:30 GMT |
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Scientists at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) announce the development of a new type of electrode, that could significantly boost the efficiency of solar cells. The innovation is a response to the most recent demands on the market, which call for the development of transparent... |
20 April 2011
04:28 GMT |
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A study currently conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) could finally allow for the construction of windows that have solar cells embedded in them. Researchers in Cambridge are now developing transparent cells that can use light while at the same time allowing it to pass through.There are some ... |
15 April 2011
11:01 GMT |
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Chemical engineers are currently looking for new ways of designing and building solar cells, in such a way that they could be spray-painted on roofs, windows and walls. Harnessing the power of the Sun could in the near future be a lot closer at hand than it is today.Existing conversion technologies are still pretty e... |
14 February 2011
06:47 GMT |
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Scientists from the Stanford University announce the development of a new manufacturing technique, that allows them to produce dye-sensitized thin-film solar cells which are up to 20 percent more efficient at converting photons into electrons than exist cells of the same type.The reason why dye-sensitized cells are s... |
7 February 2011
03:58 GMT |
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A team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the development of a new method for producing silicon wires inexpensively and straightforward. This could translate practically into the creation of new generation of sensors, solar cells and batteries. One of the most important areas... |
4 February 2011
08:35 GMT |
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Physicists in the United States say that it is possible to use a new semiconducting material to increase the efficiency of solar cells by more than 300 percent from current levels. They further add that this transition can be made rather inexpensively. In some of the world's most efficient solar cells, several l... |
31 January 2011
04:13 GMT |
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A team of researchers from Japan, has been very inspired by the moth eye's microstructure and they created a new film for covering solar cells that can reduce the amount of reflected light and capture more power from the sun.
Noboru Yamada, a scientist at Nagaoka University of Technology Japan, who led the r... |
21 January 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Although solar power is most likely our best bet for the future of renewable energy, the truth of the matter is that, for the time being, the level of efficiency delivered by solar panels is still rather limited, compared to their full potential that, however, might actually be a lot closer, due to a breakthrough 3-d... |
20 January 2011
01:47 GMT |
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The solar power industry is currently reliant on organic materials such as indium-tin-oxide (ITO) for producing electrodes in solar cells. But some of these materials are expensive and difficult to come by. A group of researchers believes it may have just found a solution to this problem. When producing solar cells, ... |
6 January 2011
06:49 GMT |
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Sanyo's been one of the best-known names in solar-panel research for quite some time now, but it seems that they've managed to take this technology to a whole new level, since they've just revealed the fact that they've started mass producing the world's most efficient solar panels.According ... |
6 December 2010
05:31 GMT |
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Officials at the Boeing Company announce that the corporation has begun to mass-produce the C3MJ+, which is the newest type of terrestrial solar cell developed by the wholly-owned subsidiary Spectrolab. The cells have a conversion efficiency of 39.2 percent, meaning that they convert more than a third of the total am... |
22 November 2010
09:57 GMT |
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Sylmar, California-based Spectrolab Inc. has produced its 3 millionths multi-junction, space-based solar cell, after 15 years of being in business. The milestone is an indicators of the boom the satellite industry has been experiencing over these past years. The corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Boeing ... |
1 November 2010
11:18 GMT |
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The future of electricity production is undoubtedly in the renewable industry, but thus far high prices and low efficiency rates have stifled its spread with the general public. A new research could finally change all that.Investigators at the Rutgers University, in the United States, have developed a new type of mat... |
11 October 2010
09:56 GMT |
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Until now, experts have placed a lot of emphasis on producing solar cells that are as smooth as possible, but a recent investigation suggests they may have been on a wild goose chase all along. Investigators from the Stanford University have shown in a new set of experiments that roughening silicon wafers up a bit re... |
28 September 2010
07:46 GMT |
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Scientists believe that a recently-developed technological process may lead in the near future to solar cells that are capable of arranging themselves into the most efficient pattern for energy production.The individual cells would bring themselves together in a manner similar to a molecular “flash mob,” ... |
6 September 2010
04:27 GMT |
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The most important goal for all companies working in the solar power industry is to produce solar cells that are capable of attracting as much light as possible. The more photons strike a material, the more electricity is produced via this method, and all solar cell builders are currently trying to obtain a very high... |
4 August 2010
08:16 GMT |
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In nature, it would appear that purple is indeed the new green. Actually, it's been this way since the beginning of time, but it's only now that investigators are finally beginning to realize the massive superiority that purple bacteria have over their green counterparts in producing energy from sunlight. S... |
4 May 2010
06:39 GMT |
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Experts announce the development of what they refer to as micro-carpets, arrays of silicon nanorods that could be used as solar cells in the very near future. Their creators reveal that the new structures are so efficient at converting light into electricity that they could lower the price of solar cells based on the... |
15 February 2010
01:48 GMT |
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Scientists have recently created a new type of sensor, one that is capable of working almost around the clock. The device could enable a wide array of new medical implants that could be used in situations where conventional sensors are too large, bulky, or have insufficient battery life. This particular machine is ve... |
10 February 2010
02:44 GMT |
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Drawing inspiration from how to use a salad dressing, experts managed to create a cheap, efficient and very simple method of making solar cells that self-assembled on a variety of substrates. The new technique relies heavily on the fact that water and oil do not mix, and forces the elements of electronic components s... |
12 January 2010
10:53 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) have recently finished developing a new type of tiny solar cells. The new devices are no larger than the pieces of glitter that can be seen adorning holiday cards and hats, and can therefore even be woven into clothes, their cre... |
29 December 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Scientists at the Boston College recently announced that they managed to devise a new type of very thin solar cells, which are able to harvest the energy stored in so-called “hot electrons.” These particles are generated as free electrons, when photons making up light are captured by the components of reg... |
11 December 2009
10:21 GMT |
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Solar power is the most abundant source of renewable energy in the world today, rivaled only by wind power and geothermal energy. The Sun will indeed rise every day when expected, at least for the next four to five billion years, so harvesting its energy is a long-term objective. Existing solar cells can easily trap ... |
15 November 2009
04:58 GMT |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announce the completion of a new type of solar cells, one that may not need to be located on traditional surfaces, such as rooftops. The innovation makes use of nanostructures grown directly on optical fibers, and coated with light-sensitive dyes. This ... |
3 November 2009
06:10 GMT |
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Organic electronics, plastic electronics or polymer electronics are the names given to a new branch of electronic products that relies on polymers and molecules based on carbon for its traits. The carbon is the main chemical element that found life on the planet, hence the term “organic.” Experts say that... |
29 September 2009
04:50 GMT |
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An international research effort, consisting of scientists from Australia and the United States, has recently beaten the world record in terms of solar-cell efficiency by 0.3 percent, and reached a total conversion rate of 43 percent. Details of the amazing work, which has the ability to completely change the way in ... |
21 September 2009
09:49 GMT |
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Applying nanostructure films to various surfaces is an achievement that would considerably advance the field of electronics production, and would also lead to more advanced equipments. But this is notoriously hard to do, as experts working on making this a reality know. Chemical engineers at the Oregon State Universi... |
17 September 2009
03:45 GMT |
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In a new study published online in the September 13th issue of the journal Nature Materials, experts at the Eindhoven University of Technology (EUT) and the University of Ulm announced that they had managed to get high-resolution, 3D images of the inside of a polymer solar cell for the first time. Knowing the nanosca... |
14 September 2009
14:21 GMT |
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Scientists from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently developed a new method of increasing the electrical conductance of cadmium-selenide nanorod crystals by about 100,000 times. The advancement could have significant implications for future genera... |
11 September 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Installing components just tens of nanometers thick onto their respective substrates in industrial quantities would clearly advance electronics production methods considerably. However, until now, this goal has remained elusive, in part because the necessary technology had not yet been developed. Now, scientists have... |
2 September 2009
02:27 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Texas in Austin, led by chemical engineer Brian Korgel, have recently developed a new type of solar cells, a bit less conventional. They propose that the energy-producing structures be made out of nanoparticle “inks,” which could be sprayed on rooftops and other structures lik... |
25 August 2009
15:51 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, one of the innovations that will make the computers and electronics of tomorrow run faster and better will consist of printed circuits. Experts have already devised organic circuits that are cheap, efficient and printable, but the trouble is that, unlike their inorganic counterparts, they require two mat... |
24 August 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Washington, led by Associate Professor of Chemistry David Ginger, have recently taken another step forward towards completing the scientific objective of producing cheap, plastic-based solar cells able to transform more than ten percent of the sunlight they absorb into electricity. One... |
5 August 2009
03:02 GMT |
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Over the past few years, large amounts of efforts and considerable sums of money were poured by governments into producing new generations and types of solar cells. While this may look like a good thing, industry officials say that the lack of funding for completely developing and scaling up the existing technologies... |
3 August 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Regular solar cells are expected in the near future to be replaced by thin film cells, which are both cheaper and more efficient. Their costs are driven down by the fact that they require less material to construct, while their quality is boosted by the new materials it incorporates, and also its reduced thickness. J... |
24 July 2009
08:55 GMT |
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A new design for growing optical semiconductors, created by experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), will make efficient, low-coast, and flexible solar cells and panels a reality in the future. In the new proce... |
10 July 2009
04:22 GMT |
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As an essential part of the United States' future energy security strategy, solar cells are now the object of a large-scale investigation, conducted by experts at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) facility. The goal of the new study is to discover special coatings... |
26 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Producing solar panels based on silicon technologies is still a very expensive way of addressing issues such as climate change and global warming, and the manufacturing process still presents fairly high costs. This means that the majority of the people will not be able to afford to buy and install solar panels on th... |
9 April 2009
04:48 GMT |
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