Sentences with phrase «produce organic solar cells»

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One type, known as plastic, organic or polymer photovoltaic solar cells, uses conductive organic polymers or organic molecules to absorb light, transfer the charge and produce electricity.

Doctoral student and first author Tim Gehan says that organic solar cells made in this way can be semi-transparent, as well, «so you could replace tinted windows in a skyscraper and have them all producing electricity during the day when it's needed.

Presently, chemists working to design more efficient organic solar cells rely heavily on «post-mortem» or post-manufacture analysis of the distribution of the constituent materials of the cells they produce.

Yet she must have smiled when, while processing an image of a polymer blend required to produce a new type of organic solar cell, at a certain point she could make out more and more clearly the outline of a penguin.

Using Argonne's Advanced Photon Source, researchers analyzed how organic solar cells» crystal structures develop as they are produced under different conditions.

A point I would also like to make is that organic solar cells would can be produced in a lab, and use no silicon.

This new technology, called a biophotovoltaic, is able to harvest the energy in sunlight to produce electricity like a synthetic solar cell, but using organic materials.