Sentences with phrase «film photovoltaic»

Now he's fighting Chevron Energy Solutions» Lucerne Valley Solar Project, a field of thin - film photovoltaic panels on 516 acres that has gotten an enthusiastic thumbs - up from environmental groups.

It turned out First Solar Development Inc. was planning to build the bucolically named Desert Sunlight Solar Farm, an array of thin - film photovoltaic panels spread across 7,040 acres that is expected to generate 550 megawatts.

To this shell of aluminium, titanium, or stainless steel he envisages despositing amorphous thin film photovoltaic cells.

Bergesen, J., Gibon, T., Heath, G., Suh, S., 2014: Thin - film photovoltaic power generation offers decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing environmental co-benefits in the long - term, Environmental Science & Technology, 48 (16), 9834 - 9843.

Located on 900 acres of privately owned land southwest of the Tehachapi and Piute mountains, the thin film photovoltaic project is comprised of 82 MWp Solar Frontier and 61 MWp First Solar PV modules.

Physicists also find new materials to use for solar panel generation, such as the thin - film photovoltaic solar panels.

Located on 900 acres of privately owned land southwest of the Tehachapi and Piute mountains, the thin film photovoltaic panel project commenced construction in May 2012, and began ramping up operation in December 2012.

The firm started production of low - cost, thin - film photovoltaic (PV) solar panels about six months ago and expects to reach $ 1 per watt manufacturing cost quickly with a 65 - megawatt line in a factory in Longmont, Colorado.

But with their Un-plugged Flexible E-paper Display, AUO has sandwiched a flexible organic TFT display to a thin - film photovoltaic battery to create a self - powered e-reader that can be bent and twisted just like a piece of paper.

So - called thin - film photovoltaic cells may be just the ticket

Electricity companies promoting solar power in the US this week declared the world's biggest array of thin - film photovoltaic modules to be a commercial success.

«America is quickly falling behind in clean energy, trading Middle Eastern oil for cheap Chinese solar, batteries and wind turbines,» says Chris Rivest, co-founder of Berkeley, Calif. — based SunPrint, which is developing technology to print cadmium telluride thin - film photovoltaic cells.

Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.

According to the designers, the serpentine surfaces of Light Sanctuary capitalize on the flexibility and efficiency of third - generation thin - film photovoltaics, which won't lose performance even under extreme temperatures and can capture sunlight from a wider range of angles, in contrast to conventional solar panels:

Regarding that Forbes article, I am well aware of the difficulties that developers of innovative thin - film photovoltaics are facing due to the rapidly plummeting costs and rapidly improving efficiency of conventional silicon PV panels.

Not exact matches

The building block of silicon solar cells has dropped so much in price that the venerable solar technology actually increased its share of the solar market over thin films in 2010, now accounting for nearly 90 percent of the photovoltaic market at a cost of roughly $ 1.20 per watt, not including installation.

The thin - film copper - indium - gallium - selenide (CIGS) photovoltaic layer also helps to lower the price so that they're cheaper conventional solar cells made from silicon.

He is also working with UC Santa Cruz physicist Sue Carter on the use of perovskite thin films in photovoltaic cells for solar energy applications.

«Our hope is that this could be used not only for perovskite nanocrystals but also for bulk materials and thin films used in applications such as photovoltaics.»

In the past couple of years, organic - inorganic hybrid perovskites have been solution - processed into thin films or bulk crystals for photovoltaic devices that have reached a 20 - percent power conversion efficiency.

This approach is already being employed in electronic devices to some extent today: organic photovoltaics (OPVs) are embedded in film.

The pattern that stores a film on a Blu - ray disc also can help improve photovoltaics.

In recent years, perovskite - based solar cells have raced to the front of emerging photovoltaics, already competing on efficiency against well - established solar technologies such as the inorganic thin - film and multi-crystalline silicon used in solar panels around the world.

Nearly doubling the efficiency of a breakthrough photovoltaic cell they created last year, UCLA researchers have developed a two - layer, see - through solar film that could be placed on windows, sunroofs, smartphone displays and other surfaces to harvest energy from the sun.

In March the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory demonstrated a thin - film solar photovoltaic cell that is 19.9 percent efficient, two - thirds better than the industry average of 12 percent.

But CIGS has the most potential efficiency (converting as much as 25 percent of incoming sunlight to electricity) of any of the thin - film technologies as well as of traditional photovoltaic cells, Heliovolt's Stanberry says.

Consequently, thin - film cells intended for large arrays use lower grade silicon (read: glass) to protect the delicate photovoltaic layers.

That is, says Sharp's Wormser, «you have the opportunity with thin film to make what people refer to as a semitransparent photovoltaic module in place of a window on a building.

The spontaneous conversion of excitons (bound electron - hole pairs) to free carriers via these layer - edge states appears to be the key to improving the photovoltaic and light - emitting thin - film layered materials.

«Thin film will be able to take the cost of electricity down to better compete with existing utility prices,» says Vasilis Fthenakis, senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Photovoltaic Environment Research Center in Upton, N.Y., and a Columbia University professor of environmental engineering.

The dilemma with solar power is that silicon - based photovoltaic cells are fairly efficient but also highly expensive, whereas thin - film cells are relatively inexpensive but inefficient.

Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

To develop the phone Kyocera worked with France - based Sunpartner Technologies, which produces translucent film impregnated with photovoltaic cells.

SunPartner's Wysips (for «what you see is photovoltaic surface») film is 90 percent transparent, half a millimeter thick and uses a photovoltaic layer bonded to a network of microlenses.

Mesoporous inorganic thin films represent a field of research with growing importance in applications such as sensing, optics, photovoltaic cells and protective coatings.

Those ultra-thin films are partially transparent (films of standard thickness are black and opaque), so they could be used to make photovoltaic windows, the researchers say.

Resume: Mesoporous inorganic thin films represent a field of research with growing importance in applications such as sensing, optics, photovoltaic cells and protective coatings.

High quality films based on double perovskites, which show promising photovoltaic properties, have been developed.

It manufacturers and markets photovoltaic (PV) solar modules with an advanced thin - film semiconductor technology.

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.

But compared to conventional crystalline, silicon - based photovoltaics, thin film solar has been tested to be more efficient under less - than - ideal conditions (overcast skies, fog, etc) and the possible advantages in having lightweight, cheaper and easy - to - install solar panels made from commonly - found materials more than make up for it.

I started looking for the First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) research outpost in Silicon Valley sometime after the defection of Solyndra Chief Scientist Markus Beck to the Chief Technologist position at the world's number one photovoltaic (PV) and thin film module manufacturer.

First Solar, Inc. of Tempe, Arizona USA, a maker of cadmium telluride CdTe - based thin - film solar cells, reported that the company will begin developing and building a 200 - megawatt (MW) ac photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant in Twiggs County, Georgia USA.

In the looming lithium squeeze, battery makers whose technologies use less of the mineral could enjoy an advantage — just as thin - film solar became the hot new thing when polysilicon shortages shook the photovoltaic industry last year.

Current research in the solar power field is focused on developing new materials, especially thin - film cells, and decreasing the cost of photovoltaic panels.

«High purity carbon nanotube thin films not only have the potential to make inroads into current applications but also accelerate the development of emerging technologies such as organic light - emitting diodes and organic photovoltaic devices.

First Solar, the globe's largest photovoltaic cell manufacturer, will also likely build a factory in China to manufacture thin - film solar panels, according to Mike Ahearn, the company's chief executive.

According to the Guardian, the Soliloquy will be an electricity - powered boat covered in photovoltaic film that harnesses the power of the sun.

The solar photovoltaic cell is only one micrometer thick, which is far thinner than a human hair, while most thin - film solar cells are between two and four micrometers thick.

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