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Record Breaking Solar Cell Efficiency With a New Polymer

Mila Luleva — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:15:08 +0000

Innovations in the field of solar emerge every day, although the competition to develop the next best thing, becomes tougher and tougher by the minute. Yet, eager scientists still take on the challenge and keep surprising us. The latest discovery is a polymer, which might hold the key to cheap, light and efficient solar cells, […]

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Record-Breaking Efficiency for Polymer Solar Cells Achieved by UC Researchers

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 03:03:19 +0000

University of California researchers led by Yang Yang, professor of materials science and engineering, have developed a polymer solar cell that achieves a 10.6 percent efficiency. The discovery comes at less than a year since the same research group reached an 8.6 percent efficiency, in July. So far, polymer solar cells have been traditionally inefficient. Yang’s […]

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New Polymer Solar Cell Coating Technology Yields 20% Increase In Efficiency

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:21:11 +0000

A new solar cell manufacturing technology that uses a thin and uniform light-absorbing layer has been developed by Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory researchers. The thin layer is to be deposited on textured substrates and has been proved to increase the efficiency of polymer solar cells.

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New Fullerene-Based Transparent Honeycomb Polymers Could Act As Power Generating Windows

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:14:47 +0000

Nowadays, many researchers search methods of making transparent solar cells that can act both as windows and as solar harvesters. Some of them can even be manufactured relatively cheaply using a technology that can spread them onto large areas.

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Michigan Researchers Develop Technology to Make Plastic Solar Cells Cheaper Than Ever

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:50:33 +0000

Jay Guo, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan as developed a method to improve the fabrication technology of polymer solar cells. He used a simplified process for printing them, and demonstrated it on a large-area, roll-to-roll printing system. By eliminating steps in the old fabrication technology, plastic solar cells could be manufactured easier and faster.

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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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CalTech Researchers Creating Near-Perfect Silicon Nanowire Solar Cell

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:02:34 +0000

A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology have invented a new type of solar cell whose active ingredients are nanometer-sized silicon wires. The solar cell they prototyped thus uses only a small fraction of the silicon used to make conventional solar cell, the rest being made of a polymer.

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SolarWindow Empowers Your Windows to Produce Electricity

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:10:43 +0000

New Energy Technologies Inc developed an organic solar array that is both transparent and produces electricity. They made use of conductive polymers, a thousand times thinner than human hair, assembled them together, and - voilÃƒÆ’ ! Here's a working solar cell less then 1/4 the size of a grain of rice, producing electricity just like its big silicon brother, only cheaper.

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