Slim and sturdy solar cells: nanocrystals offer path to electricity.(This...

Science News;  October 22, 2005 ;     427 words ...Engineers have for years been developing solar cells made of inexpensive plastic, but the...to semiconducting plastics to devise solar cells because such materials are cheaper to...the main ingredient of conventional solar cells, and are more flexible. Plastic formulations...

Transistor's Kid Brother.(silicon solar cells)

World and I;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......In contrast, the heyday of silicon solar cells is just visible on the horizon as we...value on the 1958 Vanguard satellite, solar cells have powered almost every satellite...after the Vanguard launch, the use of solar cells remained confined to space activities...

Spectrolab Provides Solar Cells for ASC Winner.(Brief Article)

Electric Vehicle Online Today;  August 29, 2001 ;     242 words ......recently announced that it provided the solar cells used to power the University of Michigan...business of the Boeing Company, providing solar cells, panels and arrays for space and terrestrial...dual-junction gallium arsenide terrestrial solar cells to power their vehicle. ...

Honda's betting solar cells will sell; Green scene.(Final assembly)

Automotive News;  December 26, 2005 ;     137 words ......The company will start mass producing solar cells in 2007, it said last week. Japan's...statement that it will build a factory for solar cells on the site of a car plant on the Japanese...42.6 million to $68.2 million) from solar cells when the factory reaches full annual...

Solar cells at $1 a watt?(input output)

Mechanical Engineering-CIME;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Solar cells, which convert free sunlight into electricity...Yet until now, even the most efficient solar cells have been far too expensive to compete...photovoltaics. Instead of trying to make solar cells more efficient, they have been trying...

NEW METHOD CUTS WASTE IN MAKING MOST EFFICIENT SOLAR CELLS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ......brittle semiconductor. The expensive solar cells now are used mainly on spacecraft, but...make germanium-based, high-efficiency solar cells for uses where cost now is a factor...efficient way of making germanium wafers for solar cells - to reduce the cost and weight of these...

SOLAR CELLS AT $1 A WATT?

Mechanical Engineering;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Solar cells, which convert free sunlight into electricity...Yet until now, even the most efficient solar cells have been far too expensive to compete...photovoltaics. Instead of trying to make solar cells more efficient, they have been trying...

Scientists Find New Way to Make Cheap Plastic Solar Cells

Xinhua News Agency;  March 29, 2002 ;     227 words ......scientists have developed a way to make cheap solar cells flexible enough to paintonto any surface...readily processed and efficient hybrid solar cells together with polymers," the researchers...nanometer, or a billionth of a meter. The solar cells developed by the group consist of ...

Spectrolab Solar Cells Power Latest Mars Exploration Vehicles.

PR Newswire;  January 15, 2004 ;     556 words ...High-efficiency solar cells manufactured by Spectrolab, Inc...supplied Improved Triple Junction (ITJ) solar cells for the Spirit rover's journey to...role of water on Mars. Spectrolab solar cells will also power NASA's Opportunity...

SUPER-EFFICIENT SOLAR CELLS IN PROSPECT

United Press International;  November 11, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Super-efficient solar cells in prospect NEW...efficiency of current solar cells. "We would expect...electricity. Current solar cells convert at an...key is tuning solar cells to receive wider...known as its "band gap," to knock out...splitting its one ...

SunPower's Solar Cells Designed Into Futuristic 'BioHaus' Building Facade

Wireless News;  November 26, 2004 ;     251 words ...Wireless News 11-26-2004 SunPower's Solar Cells Designed Into Futuristic 'BioHaus' Building...WIRELESS NEWS-26 November 2004-SunPower's Solar Cells Designed Into Futuristic 'BioHaus' Building...system using its A-300 high efficiency solar cells. SunPower said its A-300 silicon ...

Electroplating Boosts Solar Cells.

Energy Optimization News;  January 1, 2004 ;     246 words ...One way to improve solar cells is to find inexpensive materials...The composite could be used in solar cells that are relatively inexpensive...electrons from positively charged holes. Solar cells use photon energy to excite and...

Solar cells come down to earth.

The Economist (US);  September 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Nanorod stew Solar cells are still ten times too expensive...degree}C. That makes photovoltaic solar cells horrendously expensive. Consider...achieves its ambitions, carbon-based solar cells could cost as little as a tenth of...

Silicon solar cells: Physical metallurgy principles

JOM;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the physical metallurgy aspects of silicon solar cells. The production of silicon solar cells relies on principles of thermochemical extractive...discussed. INTRODUCTION The technology of solar cells provides an interesting case study of many...

ENERGY Titania Nanotubes Promise Better Solar Cells.

Nanoparticle News;  March 1, 2006 ;     514 words ...A new generation of solar cells made from titania nanotubes doped with a dye, may...5 gigajoules per square meter, to make silicon solar cells. It can be argued that silicon solar cells never fully recover the energy it takes to make...