3 Reasons Why Cheap Abundant Electricity Is Getting Closer To Reality
Three new research breakthroughs are bring the advent of “electricity too cheap to meter” closer and closer.
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5 SunRISE TechBridge Challenge Winners Announced
Following the entries of 56 different teams and companies to the SunRISE TechBridge Challenge, the judges have chosen 5 early-stage companies as winners after a thorough, multi-stage review process. For those unfamiliar with the SunRISE TechBridge Challenge, it’s a competition that was created to identify innovations in solar materials and … [continued]
US Navy Achieves Highest Open-Circuit Voltage For Quantum Dot Solar Cells
Originally published on the US NRL Website. U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) research scientists and engineers in the Electronics Science and Technology Division have demonstrated the highest recorded open-circuit voltages for quantum dot solar cells to date. Using colloidal lead sulfide (PbS) nanocrystal quantum dot (QD) substances, researchers achieved an … [continued]
New High-Efficiency Quantum Dot Solar Cells Developed
The first solar cell with an external quantum efficiency (EQE) that exceeds 100 percent for photons with energies in the solar range has been created. With these new solar cells, every blue photon that is absorbed can generate up to 30 percent more current than with current technologies. The … [continued]
Low-Cost, High-Efficiency Solar Power Technology Developed
Researchers at RTI International have developed a new solar power technology that could make solar energy much more affordable. This breakthrough in low-cost, high-efficiency solar energy could greatly help to speed-up its market adoption. The new solar cells are created from “solutions of semiconductor particles, known as colloidal quantum … [continued]
Luminescent Solar Concentrator Efficiency Improvement from UC-Merced Researchers
A team of researchers at the University of California, Merced (UC Merced), has found a way to redesign luminescent solar concentrators in order to make them “more efficient at sending sunlight to solar cells.” This could have a pretty big impact on future solar technologies….
