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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008Konarka Technologies, Inc, said Tuesday that they have successfully conducted the first ever demonstration of inkjet printed solar cells. Rick Hess, the president and CEO of Konarka said the the demo is a “milestone for the company and represents an, “essential breakthrough in the field of printed solar cells.” Konarka currently makes […]
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Moth eyes may hold key to more efficient solar cells
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Physorg.com is reporting on a new process from Peng Jiang, an assistant professor at the University of Florida that looks to the structure of moth eyes for increased solar cell efficiency. Jiang method increases the amount of sunlight absorbed by reducing the amount of sunlight reflected. Jiang says that the current “bluish anti-reflective coating you see on solar cells these […]
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Solar Cell Directly Splits Water To Produce Recoverable Hydrogen
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008From Science Daily: While its only in the proof of concept stage, researchers at Penn State have developed a device that uses sunlight to split water and produce recoverable hydrogen. Right now its extremely inefficient, but the researcher team thinks they can get up to 10-15 percent efficiency. At higher efficiencies, it’s […]
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Suntech targets 1 gigawatt solar cell capacity by end of 2008
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008The solar cell manufacturer Suntech, said that they increased their PV solar cell manufacturing capability to 540 MW in 2007, and they expect to hit 1 GW of production capacity by the end of 2008. Suntech also expects to improve their gross margins and revenues during 2008 because they expect lower priced silicon to […]
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Spire Corp wins patent to make better solar cells using nanotech
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Spire Corp, a solar cell equipment maker, has just been awarded a U.S. patent for a nanophotonics technology that could result in more efficient low cost solar cells.
Spire’s method is a better way to design and synthesize quantum dot nanoparticles that are more consistent than those made with other methods. Quantum dots are nanometer […]
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Screen printed solar cells can be used in windows
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008According to Science Daily, a new solar cell being developed by members of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE can be screen printed with a whole bunch of different patterns and colors which will allow them to be incorporated directly into a building’s design. For example, the solar cells can even be […]
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CIGS firms duke it out for efficiency crown
Monday, January 28th, 2008The makes of CIGS (Copper Indium Gallium Selenide) solar cells are all claiming various levels of efficiency. The latest comes from Global Solar Energy, Ine (GSE), who today announced that they have achieved a breakthrough for their cells and have achived an average of 10 percent effiency “on a flexible, lightweight substrate over several […]
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New solar cell nanotech research - the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
Saturday, January 19th, 2008According to SolidStateTechnology.com, researchers who are combining two different types of solar cell materials are getting efficiciencies far better than either one alone. In fact, while the researchers hoped that the efficiency would be as good as the sum of the two different materials, what they got were efficiencies as much as 3 times […]
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Using sunlight to make fuel from CO2
Saturday, January 5th, 2008From Wired.com - Researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are using sunlight to recycle CO2 and produce fuels like methanol or gasoline.
Researchers say that the technology used in the Sunlight to Petrol (S2P) project already works and can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, the researchers also say that large-scale […]
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Neighbors in conflict over solar panels
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008I guess we’ll be seeing more and more articles like this -
In this story, from the San Jose Mercury News, a judge ordered Carolynn Bissett Treanor and her husband Richard Treanor, to either trim or move two redwood trees on their property because they were shading Mark Vargas’ solar panels. The Treanors were actually convicted […]
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