Comments on: Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Achieve Record Efficiency Of 15% http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/15/dye-sensitized-solar-cells-achieve-record-efficiency-of-15/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 00:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: argh http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/15/dye-sensitized-solar-cells-achieve-record-efficiency-of-15/#comment-175788 Thu, 08 Aug 2013 11:24:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=53946#comment-175788 the photo is misleading, because the 15% cell was…well, a cell, that is, a small area (maybe 1 cm^2 at best) device. That module can have maybe 8 % efficiency

]]> By: Bob_Wallace http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/15/dye-sensitized-solar-cells-achieve-record-efficiency-of-15/#comment-171656 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 21:02:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=53946#comment-171656 Looking at the photo, I wouldn’t call that panel “transparent”. It’s clearly blocking some light.

Stacking layers of different wavelength sensitivity is an interesting idea. It would cut down on BOS costs and average panel surface reflection over all layers.

Seems like it would be easy to determine what wavelengths are getting through in and in what quantities.

]]> By: Shades of White (Light) http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/15/dye-sensitized-solar-cells-achieve-record-efficiency-of-15/#comment-171653 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 20:49:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=53946#comment-171653 I think this is only sensitive to certain parts of the spectrum, allowing the other parts of the visible light spectrum through. Absorbed spectrum probably specific to the chemicals used. a different chemical layer to absorb different wavelength(s) would be needed and once developed, likely to be built into one unit, rather than multiple cells.

]]> By: GazzerG http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/15/dye-sensitized-solar-cells-achieve-record-efficiency-of-15/#comment-171589 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:02:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=53946#comment-171589 If the DSSC’s are transparent and can achieve 15% efficiency, could you then place another call behind the transparent layer and increase the output further?

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