Sentences with phrase «solar cell efficiency»

They previously made a range of emerging technologies out of nanocellulose related materials: (1) super clear paper for replacing plastic; (2) photonic paper for improving solar cell efficiency by 30 %; (3) a battery and a supercapacitor out of wood; (4) a battery from a leaf; (5) transparent wood for energy efficient buildings; (6) solar water desalination for drinking and specifically filtering out toxic dyes.

SunPower set new world records in solar cell efficiency.

A team of researchers the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has discovered a method of coating particles with organic dye, which can capture near infrared light, a breakthrough which could greatly boost solar cell efficiency by capturing a larger section of the light spectrum.

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Nanosolar Reaches Solar Cell Efficiency of 16.4 % and Starts Mass Production

The luminescent photopolymers re-emit ultraviolet light in the visible range, boosting perovskite solar cells efficiency to nearly 19 % under standard illumination.

They hope that a layer of small semiconductor crystals called quantum dots may be able to extract the high - energy electrons before they cool, potentially doubling solar cell efficiency.

There are only a few organic semiconductors in the world affording such a high solar cell efficiency.

«We've worked on improving solar cell efficiency over and over again.

Calisolar said solar cell efficiency was «increasing to 16.8 % on average this year on our way to 17 %.»

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Hybrid Material May Help Crush Solar Cell Efficiency Record.

Thin films with low concentrations of phosphorescent dyes that only weakly absorb their own emitted light concentrate sunlight, improving solar cell efficiency 10-fold.

That said, I think this is an interesting idea, and not completely without merit, but until solar cell efficiencies have been massively improved, to a point that its solar array can be much smaller, the Maxun One doesn't seem like it's got too bright of a future among e-bike or conventional bike enthusiasts.

Scientists have created a nanofilm that mimicks the moth's eye to enhance solar cell efficiency.

Princeton University scientists achieve huge gains in light absorption and solar cell efficiency with a little leaf biomimicry.

«Future testing will focus on quantifying the trade space between improvements in solar cell efficiency and combining with autonomous soaring for improved solar - recharging.»

NREL are one of several international laboratories tasked with ensuring that any claims of improved solar cell efficiency are independently verified and held to a robust standard.

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«New heat - resistant materials could vastly improve solar cell efficiency.»

«Slow «hot electrons» could improve solar cell efficiency.»

In fact, selenium is an integral part of the formulation that resulted in a world record for solar cell efficiency.

Light degradation is a harmful effect that reduces the solar cell efficiency by several percentage units during the first 24 hours of use, after which the situation becomes stabilised.

With both EH44 and SnO2 in place, as well as stable replacements to the perovskite material and metal electrodes, the solar cell efficiency remained steady.

3) «DARPA - Funded Effort Achieves New Record Solar Cell Efficiency: In late July, a consortium led by the University of Delaware (UD) announced that it has created a solar cell that can convert 42.8 % of the sunlight that hits it into electricity,.»

With the increase in solar cell efficiencies, improved manufacturing processes, and better battery technology that we've been seeing recently, it's now possible to buy a portable solar charger and power pack that is not only affordable, but is also actually effective and practical.

Interestingly, for this non-techy reader at least, Leggett and his co-authors» also tackle the potential for improvements in solar technology and explain that media focus on improving solar cell efficiency is perhaps less than half the story — companies are also working on squeezing more value out of their products at every level of the supply chain.

Once such chemical, cadmium chloride, is used to improve solar cell efficiency, but it's very toxic.

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