Sentences with phrase «solar cell performance»

Scientists at Western University [Ontario, Canada] have discovered that a small molecule created with just 144 atoms of gold can increase solar cell performance by more than 10 per cent.

«New discovery could improve organic solar cell performance: Science team unravels mystery of a multiplier mechanism in an organic crystal.»

«Climate conditions affect solar cell performance more than expected.»

The inside back cover image of the Nov. 20, 2017 issue of Advanced Materials illustrates how ion migration in a hybrid perovskite crystal affects solar cell performance in different areas of the crystal.

Not exact matches

Woven from conductive thread built on microscopic carbon nanotube sheets, this fiber could one day help power human - sized electronic wearables and high - performance solar cells.

Narrowly speaking, bankrupt Suniva filed a complaint with the ITC claiming that cheap Chinese solar panels and cells were instrumental in the company's declining performance.

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The next goal of the researchers is to examine interactions between perovskites and other molecules, for example water molecules that are known to interfere with the performance of solar cells.

The more the composition was enriched with copper, the higher the concentration was of other point defects considered to be detrimental to the performance of solar cells.

A composite thin film made of two different inorganic oxide materials significantly improves the performance of solar cells, as recently demonstrated by a joint team of researchers led by Professor Federico Rosei at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), and Dr. Riad Nechache from École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), both in the Montreal Area (Canada).

Numerous applications from flat panel displays to solar cells require high - performance transparent conducting oxides.

Used as a counter electrode in a dye - sensitized solar cell, the material enabled the cell to convert power with up to 6.8 percent efficiency and more than doubled the performance of an identical cell that instead used an expensive platinum wire counter electrode.

In solution form, their solar absorber layer — the part made from the copper indium diselenide or CIGS materials and critical to the performance of the cell — can be easily painted or coated onto a surface.

«As we continue to work on enhancing the performance and efficiency of the solar cells, we also look forward to opportunities to collaborate with industry in order to develop this technology further,» Yang said.

That's a potential plus for solar cells, which could more efficiently use the sun's energy for a boost in performance.

«We watch the bromine ions migrate within minutes and see that the resulting bromine - rich areas have the potential to become better solar cells while the performance is degraded in bromine - poor areas,» Fenning said.

«All the exciting efficiencies and any energy claims that are associated with [perovskite solar cells] should be taken with a grain of salt,» according to Keith Emery, the manager of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) photovoltaic cell and module performance characterisation group in the US.

The performance and stability of inorganic - organic perovskite solar cells are also limited by the size of the cations required for forming a correct lattice.

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.

Many perovskite solar cells experience a severe drop in performance after only a few hours, but Tan's cells retained more than 90 per cent of their efficiency even after 500 hours of use.

Traditional methods «often require you to make a specialized sample, but that differs from an actual cell and may not be fully representative» of a real solar cell's performance, she says.

«Perovskite edges can be tuned for optoelectronic performance: Layered 2D material improves efficiency for solar cells and LEDs.»

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.

Although it was protected with a layer of glass, the 3 - D perovskite solar cell lost performance rapidly, within a few days, while the 2 - D perovskite withered only slightly.

Now scientists are tweaking solar cell materials at nanometer scales to squeeze out better performance without increasing their prices or complexity, finding loopholes through the SQ limit.

This is the first time that glass has been made with such high levels of haze and light transmittance at the same time, a combination of properties that could help boost the performance of solar cells and LEDs.

Changing the configuration to a high - performance, tandem solar cell connected in tandem yielded a conversion efficiency to hydrocarbons and oxygenates exceeding 5 percent at 1 - sun illumination.

The organisms using it efficiently transport the energy of sunlight from receptors, which gather photons from sunlight, to reaction centers where the energy may be harnessed — a performance easily rivaling the most efficient humanmade solar cells.

Due to their exceptional properties, carbon nanotubes are expected to enhance the performance of current solar cells through efficient charge transport inside the device.

Last year, Dr Joe Briscoe and Dr Steve Dunn from QMUL's School of Engineering and Materials Science found that playing pop and rock music improves the performance of solar cells, in research published with Imperial College London.

In solar cells, for example, electrons must be efficiently liberated from their pairing with holes to harvest their energy and improve solar panel performance.

«This new class of solar cell is only around four years old, so although it has high performance, people don't understand the system and why it's doing so well,» Leong says.

The new plasmonic material, can be applied to both polymer light - emitting diodes (PLEDs) and polymer solar cells (PSCs), with world - record high performance, through a simple and cheap process.

The high - performance solar cells we have now, for example, were created through a labor - intensive, trial - and - error approach of developing over 1,000 material combinations and looking at the optimal processing conditions for each one.

Abstract: Although it is known that molecular interactions govern morphology formation and purity of mixed domains of conjugated polymer donors and small - molecule acceptors, and thus largely control the achievable performance of organic solar cells, quantifying interaction - function relations has remained elusive.

High Performance Flexible Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells based on Micro-Cone Array Substrate

An outlook is given on strategies aiming for a further improvement of open - circuit voltage and performance of perovskite solar cells toward their thermodynamic limit.

Methods: The development of high - performance transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) is critical to many technologies ranging from flat panel displays to solar 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.

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In addition to the Honda FCX Clarity fuel cell electric vehicle, the Fit EV and the future plug - in hybrid vehicle, Honda is currently producing and marketing thin - film solar panels in Japan, and an installation is planned at Honda Performance Development in Southern California in early 2011.

For close to a decade, researchers have been trying to improve the performance of plastic semiconductors to the level of amorphous silicon — the semiconductor used in low - cost electronics such as photovoltaic cells for solar...

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

Room - Temperature Crystallization of Hybrid - Perovskite Thin Films via Solvent - Solvent Extraction for High - Performance Solar Cells

Solar cells don't self - replicate (yet) their performance degrades over time as damage accumulates.

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Recent advances in this technology have focused around better performance of the solar cell, like the IBM's solar cell cooling technology, but not this time.

Testing in the temperature extremes faced by skiers helps to optimize the performance of the solar cells (which become more efficient as temperatures drop) and the batteries (which suffer performance losses in the cold).

Researchers have developed a new coating that lets solar cells cool themselves, which saves water, boosts performance and helps the technology to last longer.