Ross Hatton Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:11:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Scientists Studying How Organic Photovoltaics Could Charge Our Devices https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scientists-studying-how-organic-photovoltaics-could-charge-our-devices-20121015/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scientists-studying-how-organic-photovoltaics-could-charge-our-devices-20121015/#respond Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:11:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26708 Charging the Li-ion battery of your favorite electronic device, might just have become that much easier. According to scientists at University of Warwick, an organic photovoltaic solar cell (OPV) can do this even at a low level light and partial shading on its own, without being connected in series of multiple cells. The researchers Professor […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scientists-studying-how-organic-photovoltaics-could-charge-our-devices-20121015/feed/ 0 26708 Gold Nanodots Could Improve Solar Cell Efficiency, Researchers Say https://www.greenoptimistic.com/gold-nanodots-solar-cell-efficiency-20111209/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/gold-nanodots-solar-cell-efficiency-20111209/#respond Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:00:39 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=21448 An international team of researchers from France and Denmark have recently discovered that, by using a thin film of gold nanodots in solar cells could improve their conversion efficiency. The 0.5 nanometer-thick nanodots thus find applicability in the field of organic photovoltaics, where the researchers want to cover the indium tin oxide (ITO) electrode layer […]

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