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Semprius's Micrometric Solar Cells Efficient in Concentrated Photovoltaic Systems

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:56:40 +0000

Concentrated photovoltaic systems are usually more effective than regular, flat ones, because a lens focuses the sunlight on a smaller surface of some efficient and more expensive solar cells 500 times stronger than the cells would receive in regular operation. Heat is mostly a problem with concentrated PV systems, since it has to be efficiently dissipated through complex and expensive cooling technique.

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Self-Assembling Silicon Solar Cells Could Make Cheap & Flexible Panels

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:44:24 +0000

Silicon solar cells recently lost some field because of the invention of other types of flexible, but not so efficient solar cells. Still, silicon cells have another word to say, as two University of Minnesota researchers, J. Knuesel and Heiko O. Jacobs discovered a basic, low-tech method of making micrometric solar cells self-assemble onto anything, including flexible surfaces.

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