Directory:Solar Energy Research and Development

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Directory:Alternative Fuels / Directory:Solar > Directory:Solar Energy Research and Development > Directory:Solar Hydrogen > Breakthrough solar reactor makes fuel from sunlight - U.S. and Swiss researchers have developed a prototype device that directly converts the Sun’s rays into fuels that can be stored, allowing the energy to be used at night or transported to locations where it is needed. Gizmag December 26, 2010)

Directory:Solar > Directory:Solar Energy Research and Development > Fly Eyes Used For Solar Cells - Researchers took corneas from blow flies, fixed them on a glass substrate, added a polymer to protect the shape and then coated nine-eye arrays in nickel within a vacuum chamber. The result was a master template that retained those useful nanoscale features and can be used to make solar cells. (Discovery July 28, 2010)

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Directory:Solar > Directory:Solar Energy Research and Development > - Researchers at Wake Forest University in North Carolina have developed a way to more than double the performance of organic solar cells by adding a layer of upright optical fibers that act as sunlight traps. "It's the same thing as taking a flat device and pointing it directly at the sun all day long." (MIT Technology Review May 12, 2010)

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Directory:Nanotechnology / Directory:Solar > Directory:Solar Energy Research and Development > Scientists turn light into electrical current using a golden nanoscale system - Material scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have demonstrated the transduction of optical radiation to electrical current in a molecular circuit. The system, an array of nano-sized molecules of gold, respond to electromagnetic waves by creating surface plasmons that induce and project electrical current across molecules, similar to that of photovoltaic solar cells. (PhysOrg February 12, 2010 )

Directory:Mimicking Living Organisms > Directory:Solar:Photosynthesis Imitation / Directory:Solar > Directory:Solar Energy Research and Development > Scientists grow solar cell components in tobacco plants - Over billions of years, plants have evolved very efficient sunlight-collecting systems. Now, scientists are trying to harness the finely tuned systems in tobacco plants in order to use them as the building blocks of solar cells, leading to the production of inexpensive, biodegradable solar cells. (PhysOrg Jan. 29, 2010)

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Hot Electrons Could Double Solar Power - Researchers at Boston College have provided new experimental evidence that solar cell output can be double vi the use of "hot electrons." Ordinary solar cells can, in theory, convert at most about 35 percent of the energy in sunlight into electricity, wasting the rest as heat. Making use of hot electrons could result in efficiencies as high as 67 percent. (MIT Technology Review Dec. 18, 2009)

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The sun is a star when it comes to sustainable energy - In Basic Research for Global Energy Security: A Call to Action, Paul Alivisatos and others described new research on solar cells, batteries and transmission systems that aim either to break through current limitations of our energy technologies or to find totally new and much more efficient systems. (Insciences Organization Feb. 20, 2009)

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Study Finds Less Costly Materials for Solar Panels - A study published by the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, found 9 cost-effective, naturally abundant materials that are not currently being used in solar energy research. These materials could be the key to cheaper solar cells and widespread use of solar energy, researchers in the study say. (Daily Californian Feb. 20, 2009)

Research Highlights Potential For Improved Solar Cells - A team of Los Alamos researchers has shown that carrier multiplication (when a photon creates multiple electron) is a real phenomenon in tiny semiconductor crystals and not a false observation born of extraneous effects that mimic carrier multiplication. The research, explained in a recent issue of Accounts of Chemical Research, shows the possibility of solar cells that create more than one unit of energy per photon. (PhysOrg Feb. 10, 2009)

Natural Solar Collectors on Butterfly Wings Inspire More Powerful Solar Cells - The discovery that butterfly wings have scales that act as tiny solar collectors has led scientists in China and Japan to design a more efficient solar cell that could be used for powering homes, businesses, and other applications in the future. (Newswise Feb. 4, 2009)

Solar Power Game-Changer: “Near Perfect” Absorption of Sunlight, From All Angles - By developing a new antireflective coating that boosts the amount of sunlight captured by solar panels and allows those panels to absorb the entire solar spectrum from nearly any angle, the Rensselaer research team has moved academia and industry closer to realizing high-efficiency, cost-effective solar power. (Resselaer Nov. 3, 2008)

Engineers' Miniature Solar Cells Much Smaller Than This: o - The mini photoelectric device produces 7 volts with 20 solar cells created from carbon-based, organic polymers. "The world’s next generation of microelectronics may be dominated by 'plastic electronics’ and organic solar cells are expected to play an important role in these future technologies," writes lead author, Xioamei Jiang. (Wired Nov. 6, 2008)

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Researchers Explore Hybrid Concentrated Solar Energy System - Scientists from the Australian National University (ANU), Tianjin University in China and Chromasun, a Silicon Valley company with strong Australian connections, will join forces to create roof-mounted solar trough concentrator systems that they believe will be more cost-effective and efficient than previous models. A prototype measures 1.7 x 1.5 x 0.2 meters and incorporates seven mirrors that focus sunlight onto receiver tubes. (Renewable Energy World Nov. 3, 2008)

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The Dawn of SolarTAC Promises a Bright Future - The Solar Technology Acceleration Center (SolarTAC) will promote a better interface between technology developers and solar energy users by offering solar equipment suppliers an opportunity to show potential customers new technologies performing under actual field conditions. MRI will serve as the management and operating contractor for SolarTAC. (Colorado Energy News Oct. 21, 2008)

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Researchers Beam 'Space' Solar Power in Hawaii - Former NASA executive and physicist John Mankins captured solar energy from a mountain top in Maui and beamed it 92 miles to the main island of Hawaii. (Wired Sept. 12, 2008)

12 year old Oregon student develops 3-D solar cell (Video) - William Yuan earned the Davidson Fellow award and is going to Washington D.C. to accept a $25,000 scholarship for his 3D Solar Cell research. (See also CleanTechnica) (NECN Sept. 16, 2008)

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Slicing Solar Power Costs with New Wafer-Cutting Method - University of Utah engineers devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new method should lower the cost of such cells by reducing the waste and breakage of the brittle semiconductor. (NewsWise Sept. 14, 2008)

Incredible Sahara Forest Project to Generate Fresh Water, Solar Power and Crops in African Desert - The Sahara Forest Project works on many levels. By combining the benefits of Concentrated Solar Power and Seawater Greenhouses the design team has vastly scaled up the positive outputs of renewable energy, food production and fresh water supply. (TreeHugger Sept. 2, 2008)

DeserTEC-project is a design concept proposed to the EU to generate electricity in the desert and relay the produced power to the EU. Alongside the project, water desalination projects are proposed to green the desert.

15 Photovoltaics Solar Power Innovations You Must See - Finding clean sources of it is very high on the green movement's priority list, and one very promising field is solar photovoltaics (PV). TreeHugger looks in the rearview mirror at some of the top PV solar innovations from their archives.(TreeHugger Aug.21, 2008)

Thinking outside the square finds light in oven - "What started off as a brainstorming session has resulted in the iJET Solar cell concept that uses low-cost and low-temperature processes, such as ink-jet printing and pizza ovens, to manufacture solar cells." (The Sydney Morning Herald Aug. 20, 2008)

ASU’s Solar Power Laboratory to be led by new electrical engineering faculty members - “Our goal is for ASU to have the pre-eminent academic solar energy research, development and training program in the United States, and one of the top such programs in the world" said Jonathan Fink, director of the Global Institute of Sustainability. “The establishment of the Solar Power Laboratory and the hiring of Honsberg, Bowden and Maracas combined with our ongoing research efforts help us meet this objective". (IRA A Fulton School of Engineering July 10, 2008)

CSEM Solar Islands are proposed islands that would generate electricity, store it trough the use of hydrogen and produce clean water. The project was conceived by CSEM.