Ultra Thin Printed Solar Cells From MIT Can Electrify Everything (With Video)
Researchers at MIT have devised ultra-thin printed solar cells that outperform conventional solar cells on an output by weight basis.
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Lightweight, Flexible, Energy Efficient, Mass-Producible Solar Cells Now One Step Closer
Flexible solar cells that are lightweight, energy efficient, and mass-producible are now one step closer to being a reality thanks to new research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Researchers at those universities devised a new way of creating large sheets … [continued]
Organic Solar Cells Could Receive Big Boost By Regulating Electron Spin, Research Finds
Organic solar cells could receive a big boost to their efficiency through the manipulation of the “spin” of the electrons that they generate, according to new research from the University of Cambridge and the University of Washington. Organic solar cells are a relatively new class of solar cell that works … [continued]
Flexible Solar Cells, Transistors, & Displays May Get Boost From Transparent Electrode
Flexible solar cells are certainly fun. New research from Purdue University may give them a boost. Here’s the news: WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers have created a new type of transparent electrode that might find uses in solar cells, flexible displays for computers and consumer electronics and future “optoelectronic” circuits … [continued]
SoloPower Offers Relatively Expensive Panels with a Potentially Huge Cost Benefit
Editor’s Update October 3, 2012: I have confirmed with SoloPower that it has NOT actually published anything on the cost of SoloPower’s solar modules, and that the numbers in the original post (which we retrieved from Greentech Media) were extrapolated from another technology. As such, I’ve deleted lines referencing … [continued]
Flexible Solar Paneling: the Wave of the Future (VIDEO)
American Nobel Peace Prize winner Alan Heeger rode the wave of solar power innovation all the way to flexible panels. Heeger has spent fifteen years developing pliable solar panels and now he’s encouraging businesses to capitalize on the free sunshine streaming through the windows of their skyscrapers. Be sure to … [continued]
Printing TVs as Thin as Paper, & 1st Completely Plastic Solar Cell
The title of the Georgia Tech news release, “Stable Electrodes for Improving Printed Electronics,” might not have caught your eye, but this is some totally cool research. Here’s more from Georgia Tech (images via Georgia Tech but placed into the piece by me): Imagine owning a television with the … [continued]
New Flexible Solar Cell on Plastic Efficiency Record
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.
