moth Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:23:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Moth-Eye-Inspired Nanostructure Boosts Tandem Solar Cells’ Performance https://www.greenoptimistic.com/moth-eye-inspired-nanostructure-boosts-tandem-solar-cells-performance-20121120/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/moth-eye-inspired-nanostructure-boosts-tandem-solar-cells-performance-20121120/#respond Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:23:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=28375 A nanostructure inspired by the corneas of night–flying moths provided a triple-junction solar cell with broadband (400 nm to 1000 nm) and omnidirectional (at any incident angle) harvesting of sunlight. Antireflection coatings are applied on top of solar cells in order to indulge them of harvesting all photons available for optimum energy conversion. These coatings, […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/moth-eye-inspired-nanostructure-boosts-tandem-solar-cells-performance-20121120/feed/ 0 28375 Moth Eyes Inspiration For New Generation Solar Cells https://www.greenoptimistic.com/moth-eyes-inspiration-for-new-generation-solar-cells-20080226/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/moth-eyes-inspiration-for-new-generation-solar-cells-20080226/#respond Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:18:48 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/index.php/2008/02/26/moth-eyes-inspiration-for-new-generation-solar-cells/ Most moth eyes are made up of adjacent hexagonal sectors. Each sector is filled with thousands of orderly rows of miniscule bumps, or nipple-like protrusions. Though formed so perfectly they appear almost manufactured, each protrusion measures less than 300 nanometers, or 300 billionths of a meter – a size that renders them invisible to all […]

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