Sentences with phrase «power conversion efficiency of»

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

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

They also managed to keep excellent power conversion efficiency of solar power to electricity, as recently reported in Advanced Energy Materials.

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

Power - conversion efficiencies of more than 6 % were achieved at illuminations of 200 milliwatts per square centimeter.

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.

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.

Unger concludes: «They can lead to a coarse over or underestimation of the power conversion efficiency.»

Critics of solar power charge that conditions for optimal solar energy production are rare and that even then, the conversion of solar energy is less than ideal at about 15 percent efficiency.

Both rigid and flexible based OSCs and PSCs shows improvement in power conversion efficiency (PCE) owing to the absorption enhancement in photoactive layer cause by light trapping effect of MCA.

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 %).

EPFL scientists have developed a solar - panel material that can cut down on photovoltaic costs while achieving competitive power - conversion efficiency of 20.2 %.

The team discovered that a form of perovskite, one of the newest materials in solar research due to its high power conversion efficiency, works surprisingly well as a reversible photoactive semiconductor material that can be switched between a transparent state and a non-transparent state, without degrading its electronic properties.

Even without clean energy, the electric car is more efficient overall because of the higher conversion efficiency of modern power plants compared to the internal combustion engine.

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

In 2007, Samsø became 100 - percent renewably powered and carbon negative through a combination of home efficiency and conversions to biomass, solar, and wind power.

«Solar power systems installed in the areas defined by the dark disks could provide a little more than the world's current total primary energy demand (assuming a conversion efficiency of 8 %).

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.

Given the average conversion efficiency of crystalline silicon solar modules, the power density is in the range of 10 to 15 W per sqft.

More on solar power: if 15 percent of present world rooftop area were to be used to site photovoltaics with an assumed conversion efficiency of 20 %, the current global electricity power capacity would be created.

«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 %.

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.

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.

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.