quantum dots solar cells Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:42:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Q-BICs: Quantum Dots With a Built-In-Charge to Increase Solar Cell Efficiency https://www.greenoptimistic.com/q-bics-quantum-dots-solar-cells-20120127/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/q-bics-quantum-dots-solar-cells-20120127/#respond Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:42:00 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=22164 A few articles back we all agreed that gathering the infrared part of the visible sunlight would do the solar industry a huge amount of good, as the production of electricity would skyrocket. The finding is at least a decade old, but only now did UB engineers and their military colleagues think about putting it […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/q-bics-quantum-dots-solar-cells-20120127/feed/ 0 22164 Usable Quantum Dot Solar Cells Finally Produced at NREL https://www.greenoptimistic.com/meg-quantum-dot-solar-cells-nozik-20111220/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/meg-quantum-dot-solar-cells-nozik-20111220/#respond Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:33:22 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=21602 A new type of solar cell developed by a team of researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, is able to harvest the energy that photovoltaic cells usually lose as heat. Although the efficiency is for now only 5 percent, the process could be improved in the future. The researchers led by […]

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