| Boosting The Power Of Solar Cells | New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers. |
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| Boosting the power of solar cells | (PhysOrg.com) -- New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT. |
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| Steel forges foundation for cheaper solar power | Steel forged railroads, skyscrapers and the automobile industry. Now it may help solar energy become cheaper and more widely available. In a study scheduled for the March 20 issue of ACS' weekly Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Finnish scientists report an |
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| Enphase to launch device for generating AC from solar panels | Micro-inverters improve efficiency, removing the need for a centralised inverter Solar energy technology company Enphase Energy has announced this week that it has raised $6.5m in funding for its solar energy micro-inverter technology.... |
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| New approach may power future of solar - Thin Film | 'Thin film' formula is less costly but must boost its energy output to compete with traditional silicon. High energy prices are fueling a sleek new kind of solar technology that could someday set skyscrapers and high-rise apartment windows quietly buzzi |
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| Fat Spaniel gets $18 million for alt energy monitoring | Is your solar system running? No, it's not the set-up for a crank call. Fat Spaniel Technologies sells software that figures out whether and how well it works. |
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| From 40.7 to 42.8 % Solar Cell Efficiency | Using a novel technology that adds multiple innovations to a very high-performance crystalline silicon solar cell platform, a consortium led by the University of Delaware (UD) has achieved a record-breaking combined solar cell efficiency of 42.8 percent. T |
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| Graphene Oxide Paper Could Spawn A New Class Of Materials | Researchers have fabricated graphene oxide paper -- a remarkably stiff and strong yet lightweight material that should find use in a wide variety of applications. This new type of paper is more than five inches in diameter and with thicknesses from about o |
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| Technology Review: Record Efficiency for Plastic Solar Cells |
Solar solution: A new type of solar cell uses layers of two different types of conducting polymers to increase the device’s efficiency. The design has achieved a record high efficiency for photovoltaics that use conductive polymers to generate electrici |
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| Solar power nanotechnology may cut cost in half | Solar power nanotechnology may cut cost in half, executives say, Solar power panels that use nanotechnology, which can create circuits out of individual silicon molecules, may cost half as much as traditional photovoltaic cells, according to executives and |
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| Silicon Valley: Solar Capital Of The World? | Help for homeowners who are hoping to go solar. How the Bay Area is quickly becoming the solar capital of the world. |
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| Using Soil to Lock Up Carbon Could Help Offset Global Warming | Writing in the May 10 issue of the journal Nature, a Cornell biogeochemist describes an economical and efficient way to help offset global warming: Pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere by charring, or partially burning, trees, grasses or crop residues |
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| Nanotubes May Improve Solar Energy Harvesting | "eldavojohn writes ""Scientists are hoping that the 'coaxial cable' style nanotube they developed will resolve energy issues that come with converting sunlight to energy. The plants currently have us beat in this department but research is discovering new ways to eliminate inefficiencies in transferring photons to energy. Traditional methods involve exciting electrons to the point of jumping to a ..." |
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| Nanoscale 'Coaxial Cables' for Solar Energy Harvesting | "Scientists have designed a new type of nanowire - a tiny coaxial cable - that could vastly improve a few key renewable energy technologies, particularly solar cells, and could even impact other cutting-edge, developing technologies, such as quantum computing and nanoelectronics." |
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| UD's flexible solar cells draw attention | There was a time when people thought the widespread use of solar energy was almost here. |
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| Solar cells wait for their day in the sun | "As a solution to global warming, solar energy has everything going for it - except cost. But a new government move and little slivers of silicon invented in Australia might soon change that." |
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| Efficiency Boost Makes Solar Cells Cheaper | "Solar energy could become more affordable following a breakthrough by Australian scientists, who have boosted the efficiency of solar cell technology." |
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| Quantum dot recipe may lead to cheaper solar panels | "HOUSTON, May 2, 2007 -- Rice University scientists today revealed a breakthrough method for producing molecular specks of semiconductors called quantum dots, a discovery that could clear the way for better, cheaper solar energy panels." |
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| Moderating Global Warming through Power Generation | Evidence abounds to suggest that the world climate is slowly warming and numerous conflicting causes have been identified. Astronomers who have observed the planet Mars by using spectroscopic methods have suggested that its climate too is showing signs of |
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