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World’s Thinnest and Lightest Solar Cell Developed by MIT Team

Mila Luleva — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:03:27 +0000

Researchers from MIT have developed the world’s lightest and thinnest solar cell. As electronics become smarter, better, more sophisticated, and more energy demanding, the interest in energy sources that can provide power on-the-go increases exponentially. Scientists, engineers and developers race to develop better, more efficient, and of course sleeker technology, that can ultimately provide more […]

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Nano-Engineered Super Thin and Flexible Solar Cells

Mila Luleva — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:12:24 +0000

Solar powered technologies might increase in number if nanotechnological developments from University of Texas, prove effective. This will become possible if the Team of scientists consisting of Dr. Anton Malko, Dr. Yuri Gartstein, and Dr. Yves Chabal, succeed in their project to develop solar cells using ultra-thin materials. Their aim is to produce cells that […]

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The Fate of Thin-Film Solar Panels

Mila Luleva — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:49:28 +0000

Last week, the Chinese energy company Hanergy announced their purchase of Miasole, a thin-film solar company, based in the Silicon Valley. Although experts in the field are a bit skeptical about the faith of this technology considering the popularity of the conventional silicon panels, today’s market conditions indicate otherwise. Looking at the trends of the past couple […]

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New 1.9µm Solar Cell Thinner Than Spider Silk, Can Be Bent Around Human Hair

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 10:07:06 +0000

A solar cell thinner than spider silk has been unveiled today by a team of Austrian and Japanese researchers. The ultra-thin solar cell has a thickness of 1.9 micrometers and can be bent around a single human hair. The solar cells considered so far to be the thinnest are about ten times thicker than the […]

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Startup Company Makes Cheap Solar Panels With a Third The Silicon Needed Normally

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:28:15 +0000

High performance single-crystalline solar cells have historically been expensive, mostly due to the materials used in the manufacturing process. A Santa Clara, CA, startup company, Crystal Solar, has developed an innovative process of manufacturing solar cells that have the same efficiency but cost a lot less.

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New Type of Ultrathin and Flexible Solar Cells Discovered

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 03 May 2009 09:13:26 +0000

Silicon photovoltaic cells are preferred in today's market conditions and technological implementations because they are cheap, silicon is abundant and the ongoing research has made them more and more efficient. Still, manufacturing the PV cells is very energy consuming, and they are very fragile and prone to breaking in the most mildly hostile situations (hailstorms).

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