CleanTechnica » Polymer Solar Cells http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 Low-Priced Plastic Solar Cells Coming Along http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/29/plastic-solar-cells-low-priced-plastic-photovoltaic-technology-coming-along/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/29/plastic-solar-cells-low-priced-plastic-photovoltaic-technology-coming-along/#comments Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:00:49 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=58281 Originally published on Solar Love. Cost-efficient plastic solar cells are now one step closer to the market thanks to new research from Imperial College London — a new means of exerting control over the arrangement of polymer molecules within a thin layer of a plastic solar cell has been developed, allowing, essentially, the creation of

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/29/plastic-solar-cells-low-priced-plastic-photovoltaic-technology-coming-along/feed/ 16 New Plastic Solar Cell Design Promises Bright Future http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/16/new-plastic-solar-cell-design-promises-bright-future/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/16/new-plastic-solar-cell-design-promises-bright-future/#comments Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:53:56 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=55112 With the world’s population is growing so quickly, how will we all be supplied with electricity sustainably? Reserves of all the major fossil fuels are dwindling more and more rapidly due to demand increases. As these supplies diminish, they become impractically expensive for more and more people. Plus, there is global warming to deal with!

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/16/new-plastic-solar-cell-design-promises-bright-future/feed/ 10 New Low Cost Solar Cell Assembles Itself http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/29/low-cost-solar-cells-assemble-themselves/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/29/low-cost-solar-cells-assemble-themselves/#comments Wed, 29 May 2013 12:29:39 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52231 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

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/29/low-cost-solar-cells-assemble-themselves/feed/ 1 Fluorescent Solar Cells The Future? http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/19/fluorescent-solar-cells-the-future/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/19/fluorescent-solar-cells-the-future/#comments Sun, 19 May 2013 13:00:50 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=51844 This article was originally published on the Yale News website. 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

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/19/fluorescent-solar-cells-the-future/feed/ 4 New Plasmonic Polymer Solar Cells Achieve Record Efficiency Of 8.92% http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/10/new-plasmonic-polymer-solar-cells-achieve-record-efficiency-of-8-92-highest-for-any-plasmonic-polymer-solar-cells-utilizing-metal-nanoparticles/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/10/new-plasmonic-polymer-solar-cells-achieve-record-efficiency-of-8-92-highest-for-any-plasmonic-polymer-solar-cells-utilizing-metal-nanoparticles/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 08:52:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=51554 A new polymer solar cells designed by researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology has achieved a record for the highest efficiency of any plasmonic PSCs that utilize metal nanoparticles. The new record is not far off of the 10% conversion efficiency level that the researchers think will allow the technology to

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/10/new-plasmonic-polymer-solar-cells-achieve-record-efficiency-of-8-92-highest-for-any-plasmonic-polymer-solar-cells-utilizing-metal-nanoparticles/feed/ 4 Simple Way To Create Highly-Efficient Organic Solar Cells Discovered http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/11/simple-way-to-create-highly-efficient-organic-solar-cells-discovered/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/11/simple-way-to-create-highly-efficient-organic-solar-cells-discovered/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:02:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47033   A new and somewhat unexpected way to create very high-efficiency organic solar cells has been found. Rather than working solely to increase the purity of a solar cell’s two domains — acceptor and donor — researchers found that if impure domains are made smaller, this also increases efficiency levels. “We’ve shown that impure domains

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/11/simple-way-to-create-highly-efficient-organic-solar-cells-discovered/feed/ 1 Inner Workings of Solar Cell: New Insight into How Solvent Mixtures Affect the Structure of Organic Solar Cells http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/05/inner-workings-of-solar-cell-new-insight-into-how-solvent-mixtures-affect-the-structure-of-organic-solar-cells/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/05/inner-workings-of-solar-cell-new-insight-into-how-solvent-mixtures-affect-the-structure-of-organic-solar-cells/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:57:07 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=43660   By controlling how the ‘mixing’ occurs between acceptor and donor layers (solar cell domains) in polymer-based solar cells, efficiency could be greatly boosted, says new research from a team that includes physicists from North Carolina State University. This new research has given some insight into the most inner workings of these polymer-based solar cells,

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/10/05/inner-workings-of-solar-cell-new-insight-into-how-solvent-mixtures-affect-the-structure-of-organic-solar-cells/feed/ 0 Powerhouse Solar Cell Inspired by Leaf Biomimicry http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/28/plastic-solar-cell-inspired-by-leaf-biomimicry/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/28/plastic-solar-cell-inspired-by-leaf-biomimicry/#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:58:05 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=37503 A team of scientists headed up by Princeton University has achieved a whopping 47 percent increase in electricity generation from flexible plastic solar cells, simply by texturing the surface to mimic the wrinkles of a typical leaf. The biomimicry approach has resulted in a low cost, elegant solution for polymer-based solar cells, which are relatively

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/28/plastic-solar-cell-inspired-by-leaf-biomimicry/feed/ 7 New World Record for Tandem Polymer Solar Cell Efficiency http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/01/new-world-record-for-tandem-polymer-solar-cell-efficiency/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/03/01/new-world-record-for-tandem-polymer-solar-cell-efficiency/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:48:50 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=35454   “Scientists boosted the significance of tandem polymer solar cells by successfully testing cells with low-bandgap polymers that achieved certified conversion efficiencies of 8.62 ± 0.3% with respect to standard terrestrial reporting conditions,” the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced today. “Further, after the researchers incorporated a new infrared-absorbing polymer material provided by Sumitomo Chemical

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