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New Energy Technology's Spray-On Solar Cells Applied on Flexible Plastic Material

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 16:33:26 +0000

Last year, a company called New Energy Technology announced that they had succeeded making a photovoltaic substance that, applied on clear glass, could generate electricity. Now, they are announcing the same innovation being available for flexible plastic materials.

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New Stretchable Conductive Material Could Find Uses In Organic/Thin Film Solar Cells

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:36:31 +0000

Stretchable solar cells and other flexible electronic devices can celebrate the making of a material developed by three institutions from Germany and Japan called the "silver particle-containing polyurethane base electric wiring."

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Flexible Rooftop-Mountable Solar Panel Unveiled by Global Solar

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:40:14 +0000

Global Solar, a solar cells manufacturer, has just developed and released a flexible solar panel designed for flat commercial rooftop buildings. The modules, consisting of solar panels 19 feet long and 1.5 feet wide, are actually made with CIGS (copper, indium, gallium, selenium) cells that work as well as their rigid counterparts.

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Solarmer's Organic Solar Cells Getting Real Hopes to Enter Mainstream Market

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:14:39 +0000

A CA-based company, Solarmer Energy, is now collaborating with professor Luping Yu, from the University of Chicago, to build the best cheapest flexible polymer solar cell ever, one that will be able to reach 10 percent efficiency.

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New Flexible Silicon Solar Cells Use 99 % Less Material With Same Efficiency

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:07:13 +0000

CalTech researchers discovered a new way to make silicon solar cells that not only use 1 percent of the material needed to make conventional cells, but which are also thin and flexible, making them suitable for a much larger palette of uses in all kinds of applications. And let's not mention the fact that the price will be considerably lower, respectively.

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Sanyo Develops Flexible Solar Cell That's Thinner Than Human Hair

Mike Sandru — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:00:45 +0000

After announcing the company's plan to become Japan's largest solar manufacturer and one of the top players in the domestic solar industry, Sanyo claimed that it has developed a new type of flexible solar cell that is thinner than a human hair.

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New Type of Ultrathin and Flexible Solar Cells Discovered

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:13:26 +0000

Silicon photovoltaic cells are preferred in today's market conditions and technological implementations because they are cheap, silicon is abundant and the ongoing research has made them more and more efficient. Still, manufacturing the PV cells is very energy consuming, and they are very fragile and prone to breaking in the most mildly hostile situations (hailstorms).

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