solar cell testing News
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Are printable solar panels the future of solar power?
"Despite places like Australia being bathed in sun, the cost of traditional silicon-based solar cells hasn't inspired people to buy, buy, buy," said Johnny Lieu at Mashable​. But new superthin, printable solar panels could bring the price of rooftop solar power down dramatically. Researchers at the University of Newcastle in Australia are testing solar cells that use electronic inks ...
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Natcore Technology, Coveme Sign Joint Development Agreement
Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT; OTCQB: NTCXF; Frankfurt: 8NT) has signed a joint development agreement with Coveme spa, the Italian company that is a leading innovator in the manufacture and conversion of polyester films. Natcore has recently developed the Natcore Foil Cell, which combines a revolutionary laser process with a novel metallization strategy, thus enabling high-efficiency cell ...
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NREL, UCLA certify world record for polymer solar cell efficiency
Scientists boosted the significance of tandem polymer solar cells by successfully testing cells with low-bandgap polymers that achieved certified conversion efficiencies of 8.62 ± 0.3% with respect to standard terrestrial reporting conditions. That’s the highest independently measured efficiency for a polymer solar cell, say researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...
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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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Solar energy from discarded car batteries
Original story at MIT News MIT researchers have developed a simple procedure for making a promising type of solar cell using lead recovered from discarded lead-acid car batteries — a practice that could benefit both the environment and human health. As new lead-free car batteries come into use, old batteries would be sent to the solar industry rather than to landfills. And if production of ...
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Evolar`s perovskite solar cell technology meets the market`s tough demands of 25 years stable lifespan
Solar energy will become one of the world's dominant sources of electricity production due to its low production cost and low climate footprint. Major investments in expansion will come not least within Europe, the EU's new policy in the area was recently announced. It includes, among other things, a proposal that all new public and commercial buildings must have solar cells on the roof. ...
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Solar Cells on Guardrail: World’s First Practice Trail Completed
TNO has conducted research together with the province of Noord-Holland and various partners into safe and sustainable generation of energy via flexible solar foil on crash barriers. With about 7,500 kilometers of guardrail in the Netherlands, a lot of solar energy can potentially be generated. The test rig with flexible solar foil on a 72-meter double ...
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NREL, Swiss Scientists Power Past Solar Efficiency Records
Collaboration between researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), and the École Polytechnique F éd érale de Lausanne (EPFL) shows the high potential of silicon-based multijunction solar cells. The research groups created tandem solar cells with record efficiencies of ...
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First Solar Sets World Record for CdTe Solar PV Efficiency
First Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR) today announced it set a new world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) solar cell efficiency, reaching 17.3 percent with a test cell constructed using commercial-scale manufacturing equipment and materials. The test cell’s performance, confirmed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable ...
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Two NREL Scientists Named to Highly Cited Researcher List
Two scientists at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have been included in Thomson Reuters’ Highly Cited Research list for the thousands of citations of their work by fellow researchers over the past decade. The Highly Cited Researcher list represents some of the world’s leading scientific minds. Researchers earned the distinction by writing the ...
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