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Molten Salt Moves One Step Further in Solar Thermal
Enel has inaugurated a solar thermal plant in Italy that could inch up the efficiency and output for traditional solar thermal technologies.
Date: 07/19/2010
Type: News
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics
Tags: Enel, molten salt, solar thermal, therminol
More Efficient, and Cheaper, Solar Cells
1366 Technologies has announced raising the efficiency and reducing the cost of multicrystalline silicon cell arrays.
Date: 09/14/2009
Type: News
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics
Tags: silicon, solar economy, solar efficiency
solar panels
More Power from Rooftop Solar
A startup called TenKsolar says it can increase the amount of solar power generated on rooftops by 25 to 50 percent by changing the way solar cells are wired together and adding inexpensive reflectors to gather more light.
Date: 04/29/2011
Type: Article
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics, Energy Conversion
Tags: energy efficiency, photovoltaic cell, renewable energy, solar efficiency, solar power
Moser Baer to Invest $5 Billion in Manufacturing Facilities over Ten Years
Indian company Moser Baer Photovoltaic announced plans to invest $5 billion in it's manufacturing facilities over 10 years.
Date: 11/10/2009
Type: News
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics
Tags: India, Moser Baer, solar economy
Moth eyes inspire more efficient thin-film solar cells
Researchers study moths' eyes to solve one of thin-film solar technology's biggest problems: light reflection between films that causes light to be lost before it can be harnessed for energy production.
Date: 05/22/2013
Type: Article
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics
Tags: biomimicry, moth eyes, moths, nanofilm, reflection, solar, solar cells, thin-film, thin-film interference
Nano solar is MIT's gift to humanity
At MIT's Solar Frontiers Center engineers and scientists are pushing the envelope on nano solar efficiency and the size of photovoltaic solar cells. These are not thin film solar cells, they're something all together different.
Date: 05/07/2010
Type: News
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics, Energy Conversion
Tags: MIT, nanotechnology
Nano-ink Could Reduce Cost, Expand Application of Solar Energy
A new type of solar ink was developed at the University of Texas at Austin this month. If perfected, the technology could replace traditional silicon photovoltaic cells as the cheapest form of solar available to consumers.
Date: 08/25/2009
Type: News
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics
Tags: solar efficiency, solar ink, solar research
Nanopatterns Improve Thin-Film Solar Cells
New research conducted at Caltech shows the possibility of increasing the efficiency of thin-film amorphous silicon cells.
Date: 10/19/2009
Type: News
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics
Tags: solar research, solar technologies, thin-film solar
Nanopillars Promise Cheap, Efficient, Flexible Solar Cells
Researchers have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low-cost and flexible materials by maximizing solar cell surface area with nanopillars.
Date: 07/10/2009
Type: News
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics
Tags: flexible solar cell, nanopillars, photovoltaic, plastic solar cell, solar
Nanopillars that Trap More Light
Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a new nanostructure--nanopillars--that could absorb up to 99% of visible light in solar cells.
Date: 07/16/2010
Type: Article
Technologies: Solar/Photovoltaics
Tags: nanomaterials, nanopillars, nanowires, semiconductors, solar cells

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