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Optical Fibers Mounted Upright on Organic Solar Cells Doubling Their Efficiency

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 14 May 2010 14:46:05 +0000

Right now organic solar cells, although cheap, are too inefficient to compete with silicon-based ones. A team of researchers from Wake Forest University in North Carolina have developed a practical method of doubling the efficiency of organic (or dye-sensitized) solar cells by adding a layer of upright optical fibers acting as sunlight traps.

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Wake Forest's Plastic Fiber Solar Cells Doubling Energy Output of Flat Ones

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:41:52 +0000

Solar cells get efficient as time goes, but there are methods to improve the performance of current ones, made with older technologies. Wake Forest Center for Nanotechnology has just received a patent for a new solar cell technology that can double the energy production of current silicon flat cells at highly reduced costs.

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Optical Fiber Solar Cells: Cheap, Flexible, Six Times More Efficient

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:51:04 +0000

Georgia Tech researchers have developed a system that uses dye-sensitized (GrÃƒÆ’¤tzel) solar cells wrapped around optical fibers to increase their overall efficiency, since it's known GrÃƒÆ’¤tzel cells are not very efficient. The fiber solar cells they obtained are 6 times more efficient than zinc-oxide solar cells having the same area.

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