New spray-on solar film allows windows to generate solar power
11 August 2010 | Solar Power | No Comments
EnSol AS, a Norwegian company, recently announced that they have developed a new technology that could turn every house window into a solar panel. It is about a new spray-on solar film, having a transparent composite matrix embedded with metal nanoparticles.This new solar film can be applied on windows but it also works well on other parts of your home (roof or walls).
See-Through Glass SolarWindow Capable Of Generating Electricity
30 July 2010 | Solar Power | 1 Comment
Most of the solar cells we know, are opaque cells, and in most cases they are installed on building’s rooftops. We talked about solar blinds or other similar systems covering our windows to generate electricity but we never talked about a see-thru glass window capable of generating electricity. New Energy Technologies have announced that they will unveil in the upcoming weeks, the world’s first-ever window capable of generating electricity.
Fraunhofer Institute Introduces 23.4 Procent Efficient N-type Solar Cell
29 September 2009 | Solar Power | 1 Comment
The famous German research and technology center, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, have managed to make a breakthrough in the field of Photovoltaics, achieving a remarkable conversion efficiency of 23,4 procent, by creating a thin p-type semiconductor layer on an n-type semiconductor substrate.
Charge Your Electronics With Voltaic Backpacks Made From Recycled PET Bottles
10 August 2009 | Green Technology | 10 Comments
The invention of the solar cells, those devices that convert the energy of light into electrical energy, was really a bliss to mankind. The first solar cells were created in 1954 by three American researchers, Gerald Pearson, Calvin Fuller and Daryl Chapin, out of very thin stripes of silicon capable of about six percent conversion efficiency. After more than 50 years, today’s highest solar cell conversion is 22%. They were also the first ones to create solar panels.
Organic Photovoltaic Solar Systems
17 June 2009 | Solar Power | 2 Comments
Plastic solar cellsare first likely to be commercialised for low-power, consumer applications, which currently take up about 10% of the market. In this they will compete with amorphous silicon(a-Si), and to a lesser extent with energing thin film technologies. Plastic solar cells may offer advantages over a-Si, in lower production cost, in case of deposition onto flexible substrates or as conformal coatings on to building materials, or in colour, and these may open up new areas in the consumer photovoltaics market.