News tagged with solar cell efficiency
Students Launch Cockroaches and Cameras Into Space
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of cockroaches recently took a ride on a high-altitude balloon launched into space by freshmen aerospace engineering students from the University of California, San Diego. The cockroaches ...
Physicists find unusual electronic properties in bismuth-based crystalline material
Feb 19, 2009 |
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Physicists at Rutgers University have discovered unusual electronic properties in a material that has potential to improve solar cell efficiency and computer chip design.
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Sharp Develops Solar Cell with World's Highest Conversion Efficiency of 35.8%
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency (for non-concentrator solar cells) of 35.8% using a triple-junction compound solar cell.
IMEC obtains record conversion efficiency of 24.7% for GaAs solar cells on Ge substrate
Feb 25, 2008 |
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IMEC has realized a single-junction GaAs solar cell on a Ge substrate with a record conversion efficiency of 24.7%. The efficiency was measured and confirmed by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, ...
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 ...
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 ...
NREL Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record at 40.8 Percent
Aug 13, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have set a world record in solar cell efficiency with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of the light ...
IMEC presents large area solar cells with 18.4% conversion efficiency, featuring Cu-plated contacts
Sep 22, 2009 |
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At the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Hamburg, Germany), IMEC presents a large-area solar with a conversion efficiency of 18.4%.
New efficiency record for solar cells
May 14, 2008 |
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Physicist Bram Hoex and colleagues at Eindhoven University of Technology, together with the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, have improved the efficiency of an important type of solar cell from 21.9 to 23.2 percent (a relative ...
LG Electronics to Invest in Solar Cell Production Line
Oct 21, 2008 |
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LG Electronics decided at its board of directors meeting held on October 20 to convert its A1 plasma panel-manufacturing line in Gumi, Korea, into solar cell production lines.
43 percent: New solar power world record
Aug 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian and US solar cell researchers have achieved the highest efficiency for solar power, setting a new world record of 43 per cent of sunlight converted into electricity.
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 ...
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