CleanTechnica » solar cell efficiency record 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 III-V Solar Cell Efficiency Record Of 31.1% Set By NREL http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/24/iii-v-solar-cell-efficiency-record-of-31-1-set-by-nrel/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/24/iii-v-solar-cell-efficiency-record-of-31-1-set-by-nrel/#comments Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:21:13 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=53216 NREL just passed along the following news release about yet another solar cell efficiency record (not the Sharp record we reported yesterday). June 24, 2013 The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Lab has announced a world record of 31.1% conversion efficiency for a two-junction solar cell under one sun of illumination. NREL Scientist Myles Steiner

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/24/iii-v-solar-cell-efficiency-record-of-31-1-set-by-nrel/feed/ 2 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 Sharp Hits Concentrator Solar Cell Efficiency Record, 43.5% http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/31/sharp-hits-concentrator-solar-cell-efficiency-record-43-5/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/31/sharp-hits-concentrator-solar-cell-efficiency-record-43-5/#comments Thu, 31 May 2012 12:12:35 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38686   Sharp has developed solar cells that match the concentrator solar cell efficiency world record set by Solar Junction last year. The technology’s staggering 43.5% efficiency from a triple-junction compound solar cell is 1.2% higher than the efficiency of the cells holding the record before March of 2011 (when Solar Junction busted that record). The conversion

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/31/sharp-hits-concentrator-solar-cell-efficiency-record-43-5/feed/ 4 New Flexible Solar Cell on Plastic Efficiency Record http://cleantechnica.com/2011/06/01/new-flexible-solar-cell-on-plastic-efficiency-record/ http://cleantechnica.com/2011/06/01/new-flexible-solar-cell-on-plastic-efficiency-record/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:37:09 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=27807 Solar records are broken left and right. We can't cover them all, of course, but try to cover the big ones. Recently, researchers ar Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, set a pretty big one. They increased the solar cell efficiency record of flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium (di)selenide (aka CIGS) from 17.6% to 18.7%, a pretty significant increase

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2011/06/01/new-flexible-solar-cell-on-plastic-efficiency-record/feed/ 1 Boeing to Start Commercial-Scale Production of High-Efficiency (but Not Record-Breaking) Solar Cells http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/24/boeing-to-start-commercial-scale-production-of-high-efficiency-but-not-record-breaking-solar-cells/ http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/24/boeing-to-start-commercial-scale-production-of-high-efficiency-but-not-record-breaking-solar-cells/#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:03:03 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18866 Sharp, GE, Google, Boeing,… who isn’t in the clean tech game these days? Boeing (yes, the airplane company) has just announced that it “plans to deliver its first commercial scale high-efficiency solar-power cells for Earth-based electricity production in January,” according to Bloomberg News. Boeing’s concentrating photovoltaic cells have an efficiency of up to 39.2%, which

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