Science news articles about 'silicon solar cells'

... a 18% conversion efficiency for silicon solar cells made of BP Solar’s newly developed Mono2 ... By combining IMEC’s advanced processing techniques with BP Solar’s high-quality low-cost substrates, the ...

... aluminum oxide on the front of a crystalline silicon solar cell. This layer has an unprecedented high level ... around the world use equipment supplied by OTB Solar. The ultra-thin aluminum oxide layer ...

... lightweight, inexpensive, flexible dye-sensitized solar films that are stable over long periods of light ... , shows great promise as a cheap alternative to expensive silicon solar cells. Dye-sensitized ...

Researchers are developing a new method to produce ~50µm thin crystalline silicon wafers for use in solar cells. The process involves mechanically initiating and propagating a ...

... of 24.7 per cent for silicon solar cell efficiency. Now a revision of the international ... Ho-Baillie, who heads the Centre's high efficiency cell research effort, said the UNSW technology benefited ...

... journal Optics Letters. An untreated silicon solar cell only absorbs 67.4 percent ... new generation of stationary, more cost-efficient solar arrays. "At the beginning of the project, we asked 'would ...

... 576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov] SOLAR-- More potent photovoltaics . . . Using pulsed thermal processing ... While conventional single-crystal silicon solar cells can approach efficiencies of 18 percent ...

... published a cover article in Nature Materials this month describing a new process of creating very thin silicon solar cells that can be combined in flexible and transparent arrays.

... no longer mean large panels of photovoltaic cells atop flat surfaces like roofs. ... surface modification. While lower than silicon solar cells, this efficiency would be useful for practical energy ...

... -assembly process, Nuzzo and colleagues constructed spherical and cylindrical shaped silicon solar cells and evaluated their performance. The researchers also developed a predictive model that takes ...