Sentences with phrase «solar cell battery»

The new record is an important milestone on the path to the 50 percent efficiency goal set by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its Very High Efficiency Solar Cell (VHESC) program to develop affordable, portable solar cell battery chargers.

One of the new things this reader has going for it is the solar cell battery.

Their dream is to create a portable device that can run on a solar cell battery and provide emergency relief to people living in drought - ridden or disaster - struck countries.

Not exact matches

She also recommended purchasing backup generators to keep the lights on and having backup batteries and solar powered chargers available for cell phones.

They include ECD's low - cost cell for solar power; «rewritable» compact discs and DVDs; an instant - start, regenerative fuel cell currently in development; and a rechargeable nickel - hydride battery for powering hybrid - electric vehicles, which ECD is producing in a joint venture with Texaco.

Next steps include expanding the use of the technology to different applications, such as solar and fuel cells; and using the battery to power different kinds of electronic devices.

The zinc batteries could be used to power everything from wearable sensors to solar cells and other kinds of electronics.

Flexible, see - through, one - atom - thick sheets of carbon could be a key component for futuristic solar cells, batteries, and roll - up LCD screens — and perhaps even microchips.

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.

Also equipped with a bit of solar power with battery energy storage to charge up your cell phone and power a light or two.

It runs on a regular battery but he envisages a fuel cell that the robots could recharge by resting on a treetop and deploying solar panels.

In the meantime, nanoscale carbon structures are being developed for fast - charging batteries, efficient solar cells, and implantable drug - delivery capsules.

The Navy's effort extends beyond just biofuels, of course, and includes projects such as lightening loads for U.S. marines by using solar cells to replace heavy batteries.

So, [what] we want do is, we want to give a solar cell or a battery or an ultracapacitor the genetic information that says this is how to build this device.

And once you have the DNA that tells you how to build that device, all you have to do is keep amplifying it and basically passing it on to your offspring, which say this is how to build a solar cell or this is how to build a battery, and that's what is the main driving force in our labs.

«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.

These, Singh envisions, will be followed by «paintable solar cells on top of paintable solar batteries.»

In one experiment, they hooked a solar cell to one of the batteries and used solar power to light an LED display.

Aside from battery studies, the researchers say that NDP also holds promise for examining certain materials for solar cells and catalysts, including materials that are used to treat nuclear waste.

These hybrid materials could be worth exploring for use in energy applications such as batteries and solar cells, Lu says.

He sees a bright future for sodium - embedded carbon and the improvements it offers in solar tech, batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors.

In addition, «The team is also interested in testing these fibers for multifunctional applications, including batteries, solar cells, biofuel cells, and sensors for flexible and wearable optoelectronic systems,» Dai said.

The scenarios focused on 10 to 20 years in the future, when battery and fuel cell vehicles are expected to be in much wider use, and when solar power and electrolyzers are cost competitive with the electric grid.

«Electrically conductive plastics promising for batteries, transparent solar cells.»

Mark Hersam, a materials scientist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, is developing nanomaterials for a range of uses, such as solar cells and batteries, information technology and biotechnology.

The plane's frame needed to be strong enough to carry a human pilot, several days» worth of resources and four heavy batteries, but light enough to fly on the solar energy absorbed by the 17,000 solar cells — each as thin as a human hair — mounted on its wing, fuselage and horizontal stabilizer.

Eventually, plant - based solar cells might be built into the case of a laptop computer or cell phone to extend battery life.

In the team's demonstrations, the total power consumption of the backscatter system was 11 microwatts, which could be easily supplied by a tiny coin - cell battery for a couple of years, or powered using tiny solar cells.

The 2009 M.I.T. Energy Conference included solar, small wind, cellulosic biofuels and, oh my... better batteries, fuel cells, nukes and algae!

The transparent plastic audio tutus draw 20 watts of power from solar cells or batteries.

Material scientists expect the new multifunctional properties of hybrid nanostructures will transform the development of high - performance devices, including batteries, high - sensitivity sensors and solar cells.

Potential applications range from battery anodes, to solar cells, to 3D electronic circuits and biomedical devices.

Such qualities make them suitable for storing electric charge in batteries and supercapacitors, and as catalysts in solar and fuel - cell electrodes.

The simple manufacturing process may also be suitable for making catalysts, field emission transistors and components for solar cells and lithium - ion batteries, they said.

He envisions an arrangement in which the sensors, central unit and irrigation system all will communicate without wires, and the sensors can be powered wirelessly with batteries or solar cells.

When light is shone on the neuron, the channel opens up and allows electrical ions to flow into the cell; a bit like a battery being charged by a solar cell.

He is cited by the AAAS «for distinguished contributions to the field of chemistry, including materials for superconductors, solar cells, lithium ion batteries and processing of magnetic materials.»

«Imagine batteries, capacitors, solar cells, video screens and fuel cells as thin as a piece of paper,» said Stehle.

I expect that the next decade and beyond will give us numerous breakthroughs in materials for a wide variety of applications, particularly those important for solar energy harvesting, fuel cells, batteries, other electronics and beyond (perhaps for applications we haven't even thought of yet).

«Our work sets the stage for researchers interested in studying the fundamental properties of interesting materials and applied systems, such as solar cells, batteries, sensors, paints and drug delivery systems,» said Dichtel, the Robert L. Letsinger Professor of Chemistry at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

The laboratory for silicon production at IFE works with production of polysilicon and advanced silicon - based materials for solar cells, electronics, batteries and pharmaceutics.

In a solar cell, the first step is for the energy of the light to knock electrons loose from the solar - cell material (usually silicon); then, those electrons need to be funneled toward a collector, from which they can form a current that flows to charge a battery or power a device.

In the energy arena, nanotechnology will enable high - efficiency, low - cost batteries and solar cells.

As for applications, «the graphene market isn't one size fits all», says Coleman, but the researchers report testing it as the electrode materials in solar cells and batteries.

Silicon nanoparticles such as those in RM 8027 are being studied as alternative semiconductor materials for next - generation photovoltaic solar cells and solid - state lighting, and as a replacement for carbon in the cathodes of lithium batteries.

A 12 - 24V solar cell array / battery charger for cell phone, cordless drill, video camera, batteries (up to 3 car batteries in series, or 2 - 4 nine volt batteries plugged into each other will work.

A solar cell or a battery bank can both substitute the electric grid since either one can power the smartphone plus the pico, the projector, and the speaker.

An expansive array of solar cells mounted on the 1980mm - long roof also provides the battery with electrical energy.

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The companies envision the product functioning as a disaster information board that can run for an extended period on auxiliary power sources such as dry batteries or solar cells.