Sentences with phrase «make flexible solar cells»

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

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The solar cell of the future will be flexible, highly efficient and oh - so cheap — just as long as we can make it work in the rain

North Carolina - based Semprius is making ultra-efficient solar cells as thin as a pencil tip and flexible enough to roll into a tube or print on plastic or cloth.

Kramer and colleagues have just invented a new way to spray solar cells onto flexible surfaces using miniscule light - sensitive materials known as colloidal quantum dots (CQDs)-- a major step toward making spray - on solar cells easy and cheap to manufacture.

Ultrathin layers made of Tungsten and Selenium have been created at the Vienna University of Technology; experiments show that they may be used as flexible, semi-transparent solar cells.

Organic electronic devices such as OLEDs and organic solar cells use thin films of organic molecules for the electrically active materials, making flexible and low - cost devices possible.

Random networks of tiny carbon tubes could make possible low - cost, flexible devices such as «electronic paper» and printable solar cells

Researchers at Brown University have developed a new method for making solar cells from perovskite — a faster, more straightforward method that can produce flexible, high - efficiency, thinner cells.

The information they gather could help improve the design and performance of organic polymers: flexible, stretchable, biocompatible electronic materials that could be used to make everything from printable solar cells to brain implants that restore movement to paralyzed limbs.

Northwestern University researchers recently used metallic nanotubes to make flexible, semi-transparent, highly conductive films that can be used for devices such as flat - panel displays and solar cells.

The team has already made meters - long fibers with the material, but they think they can achieve 10 meters or longer (about 33 feet) of flexible silicon solar - cell fibers.

The solar cell is made from the semiconductor gallium arsenide and then stamped directly on a flexible metal substrate without using an adhesive, which would have added thickness.