breakthrough in solar cell efficiency Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:35:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Stanford Tech Makes Solar Cells Less Reflective, More Efficient https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stanford-non-reflective-solar-cells-20151129/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stanford-non-reflective-solar-cells-20151129/#respond Sun, 29 Nov 2015 14:35:50 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=57922 A Stanford University team of scientists has recently found a new way of allowing more sunlight to be absorbed by solar cells. In traditional cells, the energy is carried through a metal wire grid. The downfall is the grid also blocks the light from being used as energy. The findings of Vihay Narasimhan, Ruby Lais […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stanford-non-reflective-solar-cells-20151129/feed/ 0 57922 Australian and German Scientists Improve Solar Cell Efficiency to 40% https://www.greenoptimistic.com/breakthrough-solar-cell-efficiency-20120418/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/breakthrough-solar-cell-efficiency-20120418/#respond Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:45:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=24053 What happens when two countries like Germany and Australia come together, united by the sole goal of coming up with the perfect solar cell? A photochemical upconversion happens, triggering an amazing 40% efficiency! The Energy&Environmental journal recently published the result of a collaboration between Professor Tim Schmidt from the University’s School of Chemistry (Australia) and […]

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