News tagged with plastic solar cells
Major advance in organic solar cells
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Professor Guillermo Bazan and a team of postgraduate researchers at UC Santa Barbara's Center for Polymers and Organic Solids (CPOS) today announced a major advance in the synthesis of organic polymers for plastic solar cells. ...
Plastics that convert light to electricity could have a big impact
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Aug 04, 2009 |
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University of Washington researchers have found a way to measure exactly how much electrical current is carried by tiny bubbles and channels that form inside nanoscale solar cells, paving the way for development ...
Powering the future -- solar cells by the meter
Feb 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Trials commencing today promise a new era of solar cells that are printed like money.
Solarmer Energy expects sun to shine on Chicago invention
Jan 21, 2009 |
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Solarmer Energy Inc. is developing plastic solar cells for portable electronic devices that will incorporate technology invented at the University of Chicago.
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Toward the next generation of high-efficiency plastic solar cells
Mar 17, 2008 |
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Researchers in the United States and Austria report an advance toward the next generation of plastic solar cells, which are widely heralded as a low cost, environmentally-friendly alternative to inorganic solar cells for ...
Plastic solar cell efficiency breaks record
Apr 19, 2007 |
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The global search for a sustainable energy supply is making significant strides at Wake Forest University as researchers at the university’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have announced that they have ...
Xerox Develops Silver Ink for Cheap Printable Electronics
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Xerox has developed an ink which can be used to print circuits onto plastics, films, and textiles. Although circuits printed on flexible materials aren't new, Xerox's method may be cheap and ...
Solar Cells with LEDs Provide Inexpensive Lighting
Nov 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Of the 1.5 billion people in developing countries who do not have electricity, many rely on kerosene lamps for light after the sun goes down. But now, researchers from Denmark have designed ...
Electricity from a thin film
Feb 01, 2008 |
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Teams of researchers all over the world are working on the development of organic solar cells. The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg is presenting avenues towards industrial mass ...
Solar Cell Researcher Explores Nanotech Ideas
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A UT Dallas researcher envisions a time soon when plastic sheets of solar cells are inexpensively stamped out in factories and then affixed to cell phones, laptops and other power-hungry mobile ...
Toyota Plants Giant Solar-Powered Flowers Across US Cities
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of Toyota's national marketing campaign for the third generation Prius launch in 2010, the company is "planting" giant solar-powered flowers in urban areas. The flowers generate electricity ...
Researchers create polymer solar cells with higher efficiency levels
Nov 26, 2008 |
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Currently, solar cells are difficult to handle, expensive to purchase and complicated to install. The hope is that consumers will one day be able to buy solar cells from their local hardware store and simply hang them like ...
New nanostructure technology provides advances in eyeglass, solar energy performance
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chemical engineers at Oregon State University have invented a new technology to deposit "nanostructure films" on various surfaces, which may first find use as coatings for eyeglasses that ...
IMEC unveils promising mechanically-stacked GaAs/Ge multijunction solar cell
Sep 22, 2009 |
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At the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Hamburg, Germany), IMEC presents a mechanically-stacked GaAs/Ge multijunction solar cell. This is the first promising demonstrator of IMEC’s novel technology ...
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