thin film plasmon Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:12:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Plasmonic Thin Film Solar Cells Producing 30% More Electricity Than Non-Treated Ones https://www.greenoptimistic.com/plasmon-thin-film-solar-cell-20100422/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/plasmon-thin-film-solar-cell-20100422/#respond Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:12:38 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7418 Kylie Catchpole (image), from the Australian National University in Canberra, working to make thin film solar cells more efficient, discovered that nanoparticles of silver deposited on the surface of a thin-film solar cell would not reflect the incident light back, but instead it would deflect the photons so they bounce back and forth withing the cell, allowing longer wavelengths to be absorbed.

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