Sentences with phrase «cell conversion efficiencies»

(Rising solar cell conversion efficiencies, expanding production bases, and better supply chains are helping to drive solar energy return on energy invested higher.

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«High efficiency solar power conversion allowed by a novel composite material: A composite thin film developed at INRS improves significantly solar cells» power conversion efficiency..»

The research holds potential for increased energy storage in high efficiency batteries and supercapacitors, increasing the efficiency of energy conversion in solar cells, for lightweight thermal coatings and more.

If the lead - based particles work inside solar cells as well as they do in the lab, they could boost the solar conversion efficiency from a best of about 32 % today to perhaps as much as 66 %, enough to slash the cost of solar power.

With this technique, the Empa team has again been able to significantly increase the energy conversion efficiency from sunlight into electricity using CIGS thin film solar cells on flexible plastic foils — to a new record level of 20.4 %, representing a marked improvement over the previous record of 18.7 % established by the same team in May 2011.

A tiny solar cell doubles the efficiency of common photovoltaics» conversion of sunlight to electricity by capturing the energy from a broader spectrum of light.

In the study, the platinum - based solar cell reached a power conversion efficiency of 7.89 percent, which is considered standard.

The demonstration cell only had a power conversion efficiency of 13.7 percent, but with further optimization, researchers expect to top 25 percent efficiency.

The discovery means solar cell manufacturers can create stacked solar cells that can handle high - intensity solar energies without losing voltage at the connecting junctions, potentially improving conversion efficiency.

This discovery means that solar cell manufacturers can now create stacked cells that can handle these high - intensity solar energies without losing voltage at the connecting junctions, thus potentially improving conversion efficiency.

Combined with lenses or mirrors that concentrated sunlight before striking the cell, they developed solar cells with conversion efficiencies as high as 28 %, compared to about 10 % in the early 1970s.

The team will continue to design solar cells, and assess their performance based on conversion efficiency, working towards a highly efficient solar cell for low - cost energy production.

Experiments have been taking place around the world to create various solar cell designs that can lift these limitations on conversion efficiency and reduce the loss of energy.

A new solar cell design could raise the energy conversion efficiency to over 50 % by absorbing the spectral components of longer wavelengths that are usually lost during transmission through the cell.

«New solar cell design could pave the way for over 50 % energy - conversion efficiency.»

In theory, 30 % energy - conversion efficiency is the upper limit for traditional single - junction solar cells, as most of the solar energy that strikes the cell passes through without being absorbed, or becomes heat energy instead.

Changing the configuration to a high - performance, tandem solar cell connected in tandem yielded a conversion efficiency to hydrocarbons and oxygenates exceeding 5 percent at 1 - sun illumination.

«Finding a way to boost efficiency of CIGS solar cells: Immersion of zinc - based buffer layer in ammonia water doubles conversion efficiency.»

With simple processing techniques, solar cells with high power conversion efficiencies can be fabricated at low cost.

Using a newly developed fabrication method, a research team has attained better than a 15 - percent energy conversion efficiency from perovskite solar cells larger than one square centimeter area.

«Our new approach can lower the operating temperature of solar cells passively, improving energy conversion efficiency significantly and increasing the life expectancy of solar cells,» said Linxiao Zhu, a physicist at Stanford and lead author on the Optica paper.

Dr Sylvain Nicolay, CHEOPS project coordinator, commented «Given their low cost and high - power conversion efficiency, perovskite solar cells have gained attention in recent years.

The paper PSCs were developed with a low - temperature Paper / Au / SnO2 / meso - TiO2 / CH3NH3PbI3 / Spiro - OMeTAD / MoOx / Au / MoOx architecture utilizing a Au / SnO2 and MoOx / Au / MoOx stack as electron - and hole - extracting electrodes respectively, delivering state of the art power conversion efficiency of 2.7 % for solar cells prepared directly on the opaque paper substrate.

Photovoltaic (PV) cells manufactured on glass achieved the highest power outputs reported for a PV technology under typical 200 - 400 lx indoor LED illumination with maximum power densities of MPD = 41.6 µW / cm2 at 400 lx (and power conversion efficiencies, PCE, of 27 %).

For this latest study, published today (August 6) in Cell Stem Cell, Deng's team screened for compounds that would promote the efficiency of a transcription factor involved in neuronal conversion.

Building on research from Georgia Tech and Notre Dame universities, Yuan found a way to improve the conversion efficiency and yields of solar cells.

A composite thin film developed at INRS improves significantly solar cells» power conversion efficiency.

I am perfectly aware of the conversion efficiencies of wind turbines, solar cells and power plants.

The next step (Martin A Green, «Third Generation Photovoltaics» discusses this) is to marry the cheap manufacturing cost of thin films with the conversion efficiencies of silicon cells.

Researchers at Aalto University have produced black silicon solar cells capable of reaching a 22.1 percent conversion efficiency, which is a full 4 percent increase from the previous record.

One milestone they have been unsuccessfully trying to reach is 50 percent conversion efficiency of solar cells.

MicroLink Devices, Inc. reports that its three - junction epitaxial lift - off (ELO) thin - film solar cell achieved a 37.75 % power conversion efficiency, certified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Planar perovskite solar cells (PSCs) based on SSE - deposited CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite thin films deliver power conversion efficiency (PCE) up to 15.2 %, and most notably an average PCE of 10.1 % for PSCs with sub-100 nm semi-transparent perovskite thin films.

New materials technology has boosted the power conversion efficiency of cheap next - generation solar cells.

Note the theoretical limit is 10 % conversion efficiency of light to chemical bond energy or about the same as photovoltaic cells.

«Where solar panels are concerned, the suppression of reflected light translates into a 3 - 6 percent relative increase in light - to - electricity conversion efficiency and power output of the cells.

Today's silicon crystal solar panels are a dramatic improvement over the original Bell Lab designs, with some cells achieving a conversion efficiency of about 35 %, but the power output is still intermittent and load factors are very low, around 15 %.

The new result opens the door to the potential application of MEG for greatly enhancing the conversion efficiency of solar cells based on silicon because more of the sunâ $ ™ s energy is converted to electricity.

The Previous Record was 17.6 % Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have made flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) with a light - conversion efficiency of 18.7

The best light - to - energy conversion efficiency we've reached so far is 1 %, which is well below the usual 10 - 15 % efficiency of commercial silicon solar cells.

The beauty is that it has a «conversion efficiency of 9.6 percent, which is 40 percent higher than previous attempts to create a solar cell made of similar materials.»

According to the firm, this allows them to get an impressive 39 % conversion efficiency at the cell level (DC current) and about 23 - 25 % at the system level (AC current).

Solarmer's roadmap aims for a 10 % conversion efficiency for its OPV cells by the end of 2010.

The aim is to produce flexible, affordable solar cells that, within five years, will achieve a conversion efficiency of 20 %.

Solar technology has come a long way, with some solar cells able to achieve conversion efficiencies of close to 50 percent in lab settings, but researchers at Vanderbuilt University found that combining both the power of photosynthesis in spinach with the photovoltaic power of silicon could create a solar cell that packs an extra punch.

Millions of solar panels around the world are made using cadmium chloride and for good reason — it's great at boosting the conversion efficiency of solar cells.

Solar power, when a cell is developed that reaches a «provable and credible» 30 % conversion efficiency, with a good ratio of embodied energy cost, will be better in some ways.

This technique developed by start - up Semprius could make ultra-efficient solar cells with a power conversion efficiency of 50 percent.

Last month, AIST announed its new flexible CIGS Photovoltaic Cell with an energy conversion efficiency of 17.7 %, noting that the growing concerns about environmental problems and increasing crude oil prices has led to an increased interest in power generation using renewable energy such as photovoltaics and other new energy resources.

Using photoconductive atomic force microscopy to study the structures of the cells at the nanoscale level, the researchers were able to map photocurrent generation and open circuit voltage in the active layer of the solar cell — two properties that affect the conversion efficiency.