Sentences with phrase «solar cell design»

«New solar cell design could pave the way for over 50 % energy - conversion efficiency.»

A new solar cell design could raise the energy conversion efficiency to over 50 % by absorbing the spectral components of longer wavelengths that are usually lost during transmission through the cell.

Experiments have been taking place around the world to create various solar cell designs that can lift these limitations on conversion efficiency and reduce the loss of energy.

In March 2016, the program gave four teams up to $ 400,000 each to develop solar cells designed to work in low - temperature, high - radiation environments.

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If there was a God who intelligently designed the universe and life then why would we have anything bigger than our solar system inhabited by single cell organisms?

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«If we understand that better, we can take these design principles and apply them to a new generation of solar cells,» Hauer said.

Jürgen Hauer, a co-author of the report and a junior research group leader at the Photonics Institute of the Vienna University of Technology, explained that natural systems have evolved to use light efficiently, but there are some caveats before engineers can design a solar cell that works as effectively as a leaf.

Many efforts are underway to design atomically thin materials for quantum communication, low - power electronics and solar cells, according to Oliver Monti, a professor in the department and Eads» adviser.

In the first practical application for the machine learning, the team worked with Assistant Professor Jim Cahoon, Ph.D., in the UNC Department of Chemistry to design a new electrode material for a type of low - cost solar cells.

«Using near - UV light to power these windows means that the solar cells can be transparent and occupy the same footprint of the window without competing for the same spectral range or imposing aesthetic and design constraints,» Loo added.

Designed by Harvard researcher Zachary Manchester, about half the wafer consists of a solar cell for generating electricity, and the rest includes a small microprocessor, a radio transceiver and magnetometer, and a gyroscope for navigation and orientation.

A key part of the prototype's design is the use of a custom optical bandpass filter to capture sunlight that is normally wasted by commercial solar cells on towers and convert it to electricity at a higher efficiency than the solar cells themselves ever could.

The discovery relies upon a «conjugated redox polymer» design with a naphthalene - bithiophene polymer, which has traditionally been used for applications including transistors and solar cells.

The team will continue to design solar cells, and assess their performance based on conversion efficiency, working towards a highly efficient solar cell for low - cost energy production.

For instance, says Boston College physicist Michael J. Naughton, the cells» two functions — capturing light and making energy — pull the optimum design for a solar panel in opposite directions.

«Such low voltage operation, and therefore low power consumption, may herald a revolutionary direction in photodetector and solar cell material design,» Grossnickle said.

Case in point, Gallagher says, is «smart grid» technology that's designed to integrate renewable power coming from wind turbines and solar cells with the nation's 9000 conventional power plants and 300,000 miles of transmission lines.

He denies speculation that thin - film solar cells will eventually kill the traditional crystalline silicon phtotvoltaics end of the business, noting that they are designed to supplement, not supplant, the old standbys.

He adds, «Exciton diffusion and transport are important processes in solar - cell devices, so understanding what limits these may well help the design of better materials, or the development of better ways to process materials so that energy losses during exciton migration are limited.»

The Stanford team tested their technology on a custom - made solar absorber — a device that mimics the properties of a solar cell without producing electricity — covered with a micron - scale pattern designed to maximize the capability to dump heat, in the form of infrared light, into space.

«It is important for us to understand this, so that we can design new materials, for example, to build better or more efficient solar cells, or make better and more economical use of fossil fuels,» Elmlund said.

In the eternal search for next generation high - efficiency solar cells and LEDs, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and their partners are creating innovative 2D layered hybrid perovskites that allow greater freedom in designing and fabricating efficient optoelectronic devices.

The solar cells weren't wired identically, with different sections designed to take advantage of different conditions.

«This is some of the first evidence that electrons and holes could still interact like this across such a long distance,» commented Professor Adachi, «so this structure may also be a useful tool for studying and understanding the physics of excitons to design better OLEDs and organic solar cells in the future.»

The «SQ» limit describes the maximum efficiency of a solar cell using a conventional single - layer design with a single semiconductor junction.

Once we understand these design principles, we can make molecules just like solar cells.»

Nathan Gabor at the University of California, Riverside, was trying to design a solar cell to do the same thing.

Semitransparent solar cell technology can be integrated into the building design, replacing conventional building materials.

That is important not only for the design of dye - sensitised solar cells, but also in order to be able to develop systems of materials for photocatalytic generation of hydrogen for storing solar energy as hydrogen fuel.»

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.

A simple new approach to plastic solar cells: Osaka University researchers intelligently design new highly efficient organic solar cells based on amorphous electronic materials with potential for easy printing January 28th, 2018

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.

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A Yale team has looked to nature to help solve a design problem, using tiny fossilized creatures called diatoms to improve the light absorption of organic solar cells.

The typical design of a perovskite solar cell sandwiches the perovskite between a hole transport material, a thin film of an organic molecule called spiro - OMeTAD that's doped with lithium ions and an electron transport layer made of titanium dioxide, or TiO2.

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Most solar cells absorb visible light to produce electricity, but his design harnesses both visible and ultraviolet light.

The seventh grader won the award for designing a new, more efficient solar cell — a project he undertook at Meadow Park Middle School.

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Designed with lightweight and recycled materials, as well as hexagonal roof - top solar cells embedded in the glass roof panel that power extra lighting or climate control systems, the Kia Ray is the fifth vehicle from the Irvine Calif. - based Kia Design Center America (KDCA) to be revealed in the last year.

The photovoltaic cell provides a steady stream of solar energy, which gives LG an absolutely winning design.

The tablet comes with solar re-chargeable cells making it ideal for use in far flung rural areas where electricity may not be available at all times and has also been designed to store and upload the data to a central server in real time.

The Company designs, manufactures and markets high - performance solar cells, which are made from specially processed silicon wafers.

Quite different from any design we've seen before, the light is actually an inflatable, waterproof bag that contains an LED bulb, and a solar cell on the outside.

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Four layers of Plextronics» inks used in a solar cell would measure about 1/1, 000 th the thickness of a human hair, Thompson said, and the substances are designed to conduct power and light in an inexpensive, cost - efficient way.

Custom - made solar cells were then applied to Kapton and cut into the design.

Laptops generally consume a fair bit of power relative to what small solar cells are capable of putting out, which means Ponti's design may come up against some energy - deficit limitations.