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Organic solar cells - Clevios™ Materials for a new technology
The goal of new developing organic photovoltaic (OPV) producers is to offer flexible and economic film based photovoltaics for novel applications. Can OPVs be wearable? Can a solar cell be unrolled and used to power up your mobile phone? HC Starck Clevios GmbH offers two types of materials for use in OPV's. Both are based on versions of the patented Clevios™ P (PEDOT:PSS), but have different ...
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Alfa Chemistry Announces Offering of Organic and Printed Electronics Materials
Organic materials enjoy advantages like more flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and ease of manufacture, especially when compared with silicon-based materials. To make such materials more easily accessible to all researchers worldwide, earlier this month Alfa Chemistry announces that it now starts to offer a large array of organic and printed electronics materials. Organic printed electronic ...
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Solar Press and KROENERT announce partnership for low cost, flexible organic solar cell manufacture
Move dramatically reduces cost of Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) production, enabling low cost production of light weight, flexible solar cells Solar cell technology developer Solar Press and coating and printing experts KROENERT have announced the signing of a long term partnership agreement to develop and sell turn-key manufacturing solutions for Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) modules. This move, ...
By Carbon Trust
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Bright future for British solar
Cambridge Enterprise, the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation office, and the Carbon Trust today announced the launch of Eight19 Limited, a new solar energy company which will develop and manufacture high performance, lower cost plastic solar cells for high-growth volume markets. Spun-out from the Carbon Trust’s Cambridge University-TTP Advanced Photovoltaic Research ...
By Carbon Trust
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Heliatek Sets New World Record Efficiency of 10.7% for its Organic Tandem Solar Cell
Heliatek GmbH, technology leader in the field of organic solar films, continues to set new world records for organic solar cells. The company has commissioned SGS, an accredited and independent testing facility, with a measurement campaign of its latest organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. The result of this campaign is a new world record for OPV with 10.7% cell efficiency on 1.1 cm2. It ...
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Alfa Chemistry Begins to Offer Reduced Graphene Oxide
The past decade has seen rapid growth in demand for the graphene and graphene oxides. Alfa Chemistry is a newly emerging supplier of various graphene-related products and solutions. Earlier this month, the company announces to provide reduced graphene oxide for both scientific and industrial uses. “Scientists and researchers have been exploring the large-scale applications of graphene in ...
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New Way to Pattern Metals Could Make Solar Panels More Sustainable and Cheaper
Researchers in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick have found out a new method to pattern metals, which could render the next generation of solar panels cheaper and more sustainable. The most extensively employed electrical conductors in modern electronics and solar cells are silver and copper. However, traditional techniques of patterning these metals to create the required ...
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New Production Volume Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis System for TCO Deposition from Sono-Tek for Cost-effective Thin Film Solar Manufacturing
Sono-Tek's new IMPACT ARRAY system is designed for high temperature ultrasonic spray pyrolysis processes used to deposit acid solutions for creating TCO layers in production volume thin film solar manufacturing. The system features an array of Sono-Tek's new corrosive resistant Cobalt A12 Series ultrasonic nozzles for non-clogging, repeatable, long life performance, even under demanding high ...
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Idea could lead to cheap solar cells using plant waste
Remote communities could eventually make their own solar cells using waste vegetation, thanks to a design developed by researchers in Switzerland and the United States. The technology is inspired by photosynthesis. In plant cells, sunlight separates electrical charges with almost 100 per cent efficiency. Electrical charges must also be separated to create currents in solar cells. For the past ...
By SciDev.Net
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The Future of Solar Power
When you think of renewable energies, what do you think of? Hydro power? Wind energy? In fact, they have proven to be the most popular in recent years. Hydro power in its current form is the cheapest of the renewable energies. Wind power is the fastest growing. However, there is a renewable energy that is far more versatile and has the potential to achieve a higher ROI than the ones mentioned ...
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Funneling the sun’s energy
MIT engineers propose a new way of harnessing photons for electricity, with the potential for capturing a wider spectrum of solar energy. Written by David L. Chandler, MIT News Office.You can read the original story in MIT NewsThe quest to harness a broader spectrum of sunlight’s energy to produce electricity has taken a radically new turn, with the proposal of a “solar energy funnel” that takes ...
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Scaled perovskite solar modules pass three critical stability tests
Solliance partners TNO, imec and the Eindhoven University of Technology, demonstrated encapsulated perovskite solar modules fabricated using industrial processes that withstand three established lifetime tests, i.e. the light soak test, the damp-heat test and the thermal cycling test. It is for the first time this milestone is passed with scaled perovskite solar modules prepared by research ...
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The solar researchers aiming to light up Africa
Can a new network of African solar researchers lead the way on solar power for the continent? Christine Ottery finds out. It was a surprise to Daniel Egbe to discover, at a 2010 conference in Tunisia, that two of his colleagues, both solar researchers from Africa, were not acquainted. So the Cameroonian scientist introduced Teketel Yohannes, a professor at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, to ...
By SciDev.Net
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NREL Scientist Named AAAS Fellow
David S. Ginley, a materials scientist at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has been named a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor accorded to at most 1 percent of the prestigious scientific society’s membership each year. AAAS cited Ginley for “distinguished contributions in renewable energy and ...
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Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
Talking about perovskites, the word stability or lifetime soon comes up. A lot of energy has been invested in the research to arrive at stable perovskite based solar cells. New chemical composition, new layers and new barrier technologies combined made these solar cells more resilient to oxygen and moisture. The milestone of one thousand hours in at 85 degrees Celsius and 85% relative humidity is ...
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Webinar: Stability of Perovskite Solar Cells
Talking about perovskites, the word stability or lifetime soon comes up. A lot of energy has been invested in the research to arrive at stable perovskite based solar cells. New chemical composition, new layers and new barrier technologies combined made these solar cells more resilient to oxygen and moisture. The milestone of one thousand hours in at 85 degrees Celsius and 85% relative humidity is ...
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Nanowires may boost solar cell efficiency, UC San Diego engineers say
University of California, San Diego electrical engineers have created experimental solar cells spiked with nanowires that could lead to highly efficient thin-film solar cells of the future. Indium phosphide (InP) nanowires can serve as electron superhighways that carry electrons kicked loose by photons of light directly to the device’s electron-attracting electrode — and this scenario could boost ...
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NREL and partners to compare high-efficiency solar cells from three nations at sites in Colorado and Yokohama, Japan
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is partnering with major international industrial technology and solar research organizations to test how solar cells from three manufacturers perform in two geographic locations with different lighting conditions. A primary goal of the study is to assess how panels from three different manufacturers – from ...
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A day in the sun
Original story at MIT News An arresting image fills the screen before hundreds of rapt members of the MIT community as Vladimir Bulović, professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, begins his presentation. Bulović, the School of Engineering’s associate dean for innovation, describes the graphic as a cross-section of two thin-film solar photovoltaic ...
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NREL Discovery Creates Future Opportunity in Quantum Computing
Scientists at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discovered a use for perovskites that runs counter to the intended usage of the hybrid organic-inorganic material. Considerable research at NREL and elsewhere has been conducted into the use of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites as a solar cell. Perovskite systems have been shown to be highly efficient at ...
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