News tagged with solar energy conversion
Accolade for solar-hydrogen project
May 18, 2009 |
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A research project that aims to produce hydrogen on an environmentally friendly and cost-effective basis by using energy from the sun has won a prestigious E.ON research award.
DNA 'tricked' to act as nano-building blocks
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- McGill researchers have succeeded in finding a new way to manufacture nanotubes, one of the important building blocks of the nanotechnology of the future. Their building material? Biological DNA.
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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 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%.
Renewable energies : the promise of organic solar cells
Apr 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the race to renewable energy, organic solar cells are now really starting to take off. They can be manufactured easily and cheaply, they have low environmental impact, and since they are compatible with ...
Getting into hot water: Solar water heating pays for itself five times over
Mar 09, 2009 |
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An analysis of the engineering and economics for a solar water-heating system shows it to have a payback period of just two years, according to researchers in India. They report, in the International Journal of Global En ...
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 ...
Breakthrough in efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells
Jun 29, 2008 |
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In a paper published in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have achieved a reco ...
Easing Atmospheric CO2 Levels Using Nanotubes and Sunlight
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University have determined a way to use arrays of nanotubes in a solar-based process to convert carbon dioxide and water into methane and other hydrocarbon ...
Best energy harvesting sources for future AF UAVs
Jul 14, 2009 |
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Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are expected to power Air Force unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the future because they are an optimum energy harvesting source that may lead to longer flight times without refueling.
Substantial improvement in essential cheap solar cell process
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 20, 2008 |
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A cheap alternative to silicon solar cells can be found in dye-sensitised solar cells. This type of cell imitates the natural conversion of sunlight into energy by, for instance, plants and light-sensitive bacteria. Annemarie ...
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