solar cell polymer|Solar Cells – Plastic is In, Crystal is Out!
by DrWurm
solar cell polymer|Solar Cells – Plastic is In, Crystal is Out!
are currently the most solar technologies on silicon crystals whose highly refined type and relative scarcity makes it expensive components in the solar process heat supplied. This makes the end product as expensive and the cost is one of the factors affecting the use of solar panels to generate energy.
plastic or polymer solar cells are relatively new to solar technology, but its potential benefits – lower costs, less weight and more flexibility – sweeping promises to the solar industry, sourcing and production are refined once
polymers are plastic-like substances, generally produced from petroleum .. Organic polymers, which are typically represented by products such as shellac and amber (or tree resin), may soon be made of cellulose or foods such as corn available, so that organic polymer solar technology is not only affordable, but environmentally friendly, ie /> Konarka Technologies, Inc., recently announced that its flagship product, Power Plastic ®, was evaluated at 6 percent efficiency. This may not seem like much, but rarely used in solar cells boast more than 12 -. Plugged in at 14 percent efficiency, and polymer technology still in its infancy
For Konarka to reach 6 percent of its flexible organic photovoltaic (PV) solar energy is really an important milestone, as co-developer Dr. Alan Heeger from the University of California (Santa Barbara) fixed.
“This progress gives us confidence that we are based on a technology pathway toward the vision of a high efficiency, low cost” plastic “solar cells.”
Heeger , a co-founder of Konarka, the Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded in 2000. He and his colleagues at UCSB are currently on issues related to the fundamental electronic structure of polymer solar cells, concentrated and hopes to push in the near future, the efficiency rating to 10 percent full, which it would be highly competitive with silicon-based solar -.
Another discovery from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, by promising polymer solar material by improving a silicon atom (or crystalline) for a carbon atom in the backbone of the polymer . Finally, says UCLA researcher and co-author Hsiang-Yu Chen, solar cells as thin as paper, attachable to any surface, and colored to match different applications.
sites vary from a solar panel next to your deck or patio that looks like a Van Gogh!
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