Sentences with phrase «solar cell research»

The group of close to 30 scientists continue to push forward the frontiers of perovskite solar cell research, with regular generation of new IP and academic publications.

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During the 494th Brookhaven Lecture, Matthew Eisaman explained solar cells» important role in meeting the world's energy demands, the U.S. Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative to reduce the cost of solar cell - generated electricity by 2020, and solar cell research at Brookhaven Lab.

To arrive at these findings, the researchers tested a number of molecules that are also used within organic solar cell research at Chalmers.

BOSTON — The hottest new material in solar cell research has another trick up its sleeve.

Not exact matches

Bob Johnson, director of photovoltaics at research firm Strategies Unlimited, in Mountain View, Calif., says PV cells may drop below their current price by 30 % or more by 2010, even without big technological advances, making the cost of solar energy competitive with conventional sources.

Now, DuPont's research labs, which produced discoveries such as nylon, rayon, Teflon, and solar cells, is the target of persistent activist attacks.

Researchers from Osaka University, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, recently found a way to produce polymer solar cells without the need for these specialized treatments, while improving its conductivity, by using amorphous polymer blends and adding a component.

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.

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.

This research provides a new insight into the movement of electrons that could potentially change the way solar cells and semiconductor devices are built.

Joseph Berry, senior research scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who studies solar cells but was not involved in the research, said the research project is interesting because the device scales well and targets a specific part of the solar spectrum.

If the technology proves robust and reliable, it could produce solar cells at just one - fifth the cost of conventional silicon panels, says Russell Gaudiana, research chief at Konarka Technologies of Lowell, Massachusetts.

To create products such as stem cell research devices and solar cells, Shrink Nanotechnologies has developed a new material that trumps the toy's abilities.

A Korean research team has developed semi-transparent perovskite solar cells that could be great candidates for solar windows.

In order to reduce these large energy losses and raise efficiency, Professor Kita's research team used two small photons from the energy transmitted through a single - junction solar cell containing a hetero - interface formed from semiconductors with different bandgaps.

Using perovskites, a Korean research team, led by Professor Seunghyup Yoo of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Professor Nam - Gyu Park of Sungkyunkwan University, has developed a semi-transparent solar cell that is highly efficient and functions very effectively as a thermal mirror.

From a speech at Michigan State University (M.S.U.) in early August: «To meet these goals, we will invest more in the clean - technology research and development that's occurring in labs and research facilities all across the country and right here at M.S.U., where you're working with farm owners to develop this state's wind potential and developing nanotechnology that will make solar cells cheaper.»

«Ideally, in a solar cell we would want light coming in to turn into several electrons,» said Max Grossnickle, also a graduate student in Gabor's lab and the research paper's co-first author.

Olle Inganäs, professor at Linköping University, is head of a research group that has now developed an even simpler method to manufacture solar cell modules.

Together with his research group, he has now developed an improved method to manufacture these thin and flexible solar cells.

Hybrid, semi-organic solar cells are still being developed and perfected at the research centres all over the world.

In fact, cadmium telluride solar cells are currently the most ecofriendly devices, even though they use a toxic heavy metal, primarily because they require the least energy — typically provided by burning fossil fuels — to manufacture, says environmental engineer Vasilis Fthenakis, senior scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory's National Photovoltaic Environment Research Center in Upton, N.Y., and Columbia University.

Postdoctoral research associate Monojit Bag (left) and graduate student Tim Gehan (right) synthesize polymer nanoparticles for use in organic - based solar cells being made at the UMass Amherst - based energy center.

One goal of the research led by Savin is to find ways to produce equally efficient solar cells using the less expensive but impure silicon rather than the more expensive purified silica.

A solar panel made of these cells ran at only 11 percent efficiency, but held up for 10,000 hours of illumination, or more than a year, according to research published in June in Nature Communications.

At the edges of the perovskite layers, the new research discovered «layer - edge - states,» which are key to both high efficiency of solar cells (> 12 percent) and high fluorescence efficiency (a few tens of percent) for LEDs.

Besides its topological properties, its «sister materials,» which have similar properties and were also studied by the research team, are known to be light - sensitive and have useful properties for solar cells and for optoelectronics, which control light for use in electronic devices.

The research, led by Peidong Yang of Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, was published this week in the journal Nature Materials in a study titled, «Thermochromic Halide Perovskite Solar Cells.»

«In perovskite solar cells and LEDs, you tend to lose a lot of efficiency through defects,» said Dr Sam Stranks, who led the research while he was a Marie Curie Fellow jointly at MIT and Cambridge.

Professor Masanobu Izaki and colleagues at Toyohashi University of Technology, in collaboration with researchers at the Research Center for Photovoltaic Technologies, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, have analyzed the structure of a zinc - based buffer layer in a CIGS solar cell at SPring8 (the world's largest third - generation synchrotron radiation facility, located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan).

In a previous study (Applied Physics Letters, Volume 103, Issue 2, 021116 (2013)-RRB- the research team of David R. Barbero already demonstrated that nano - engineered networks can be produced onto thin and flexible transparent electrodes that can be used in flexible solar cells.

The research groups created tandem solar cells with record efficiencies of converting sunlight into electricity under 1 - sun illumination.

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.

Alán Aspuru - Guzik, an assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University, heads a team that is researching ways to incorporate the quantum lessons of photosynthesis into organic photovoltaic solar cells.

Using a newly developed fabrication method, a research team has attained better than a 15 - percent energy conversion efficiency from perovskite solar cells larger than one square centimeter area.

One of the problems for Javier Vela and the chemists in his Iowa State University research group was that a toxic material worked so well in solar cells.

«The use of tiny cells for efficiency testing has prompted some to question comparison of perovskite solar cells with other established photovoltaic technologies,» said Nitin Padture, professor of engineering at Brown, director of Brown's Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation, and one of the senior authors of the new research.

«New research could revolutionize flexible electronics, solar cells.»

Solar cells that are cheaper and easier to manufacture could challenge the dominance of silicon, with new research showing an alternative material called perovskite is more efficient and adaptable than previously thought.

The Photovoltaics Section at NRL conducts research to develop photovoltaic (solar cell) technologies to enable logistics free, renewable, portable, power sources for the warfighter.

Her research has provided important insights into the basic physics of perovskite solar cells by measuring their efficiency at different temperatures and light intensities.

The challenge to developing efficient and cheap commercially available solar panels has, until now, been dominated by silicon, with emerging alternative solar cells considered minor players, says Wei Lin Leong from Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) Institute of Materials Research and Engineering.

Scientists led by Germany's Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research have demonstrated for the first time that, as well as electrons, light also releases charged particles in a perovskite solar cell material.

Applications for this research demonstrate implications for use in materials like abrasion resistant paints, high surface area catalyst, electron tunneling barriers, ultra-violet adsorption or capture in sunscreens or solar cells and even beyond when core - shell nanoparticles are used as buildings blocks for making new artificial nanostructured solids with unprecedented properties.

But in the process of his research, Miller, along with Yablonovitch, realized that solar cells which emitted more photons without losing thermal energy made for a more efficient cell.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- Research led by a Brown University Ph.D. student has revealed a new way to make light - absorbing perovskite films for use in solar cells.

At Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin, they are needed to understand the deep, inner structure of matter to improve solar cells, for example, or to answer long - standing questions in archaeology, biology and many other fields of research.

This research is providing fundamental knowledge about the relationship between electronic properties and molecular structure of materials that could be used in solar cells.

As energy - efficient technologies continue to attract funding from government and private research agencies, Miller said he hopes that by 2016, solar cell technology will reach cost parity with other fuels and be used in many homes across the country.