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Eco Factor: Highly efficient solar cells are tailored to suit their location.
UK-based Quantasol has achieved a world record for the most efficient gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar cells that until now were only used in space-based applications. The..
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Eco Factor: Nanoparticles allow solar cells to absorb more sunlight, making them more efficient.
Apart from the high costs of solar cells, their low efficiency is also...
made popular Jun 13 2009
Mae Yokoyama, a Masters Jewelery design student at the Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Sweden offers you the Lux solar panel collar. The necklace...
made popular May 6 2009
Eco Factor: Flexible solar cells that can be printed onto any material.
Being rigid, heavy and opaque, traditional solar cells have limited uses. However, being...
made popular May 1 2009
Eco Factor: Rugged solar cell design for more efficiency.
The amount of solar electricity generated by solar cells depends on the amount of sunlight the cells receive,...
made popular Mar 25 2009
Eco Factor: Thin-film organic solar cells with 4.9% efficiency.
Mitsubishi has made sure that its faded-out TFT technology doesn’t go to waste and is reused in some...
made popular Mar 2 2009
Eco Factor: Flexible organic solar cell modules showcased at PV EXPO 2009.
The race to develop the most efficient and the trendiest solar cells began with the...
made popular Feb 27 2009
Eco Factor: Cellphone powered by solar energy.
Just after cellphone manufacturers like LG, Samsung and ZTE announced their solar-powered devices at the MWC, KDDI’s...
made popular Feb 20 2009
Eco Factor: Cost-effective solar cells can be printed like currency notes.
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), a world leading...
made popular Feb 20 2009
Eco Factor: Plastic solar cells with better efficiency rating being developed at Solarmer Energy.
A team of researchers at the University of Chicago are working with...
made popular Jan 23 2009
There is much talk about alternative (or “green”) energy sources these days. Although there a several different types-ethanol, biomass, hydroelectric, and...
made popular Dec 5 2008
Designer: Julia Schlegel.
Green gadgets are all the rage these days and here we are, with an eco-friendly mobile phone concept. Targeted at the poor in developing...
made popular Nov 19 2008
Eco Factor: Solar cells just 1 mm long can power small to extremely small machines.
Instead of simply spraying paint on your walls and roofs, now you can beautify them...
made popular Nov 7 2008
Eco Factor: Researchers achieve highest ever efficiency rating for dye-sensitized solar cells.
Grätzel cells, or dye-sensitized solar cells as they are popularly...
made popular Nov 6 2008
Eco Factor: SolFocus clinches deal with EMPE Solar for the largest concentrated solar deployment in the world.
SolFocus, a provider of CPVs (Concentrated Photovoltaic...
made popular Nov 5 2008
EcoFactor: Hybrid material developed to increase the efficiency of solar cells.
Research has proved that if the all the solar energy falling on the Earth per hour is...
made popular Oct 17 2008
Eco Factor: State of the art printer capable of producing flexible solar modules that can generate over a gigawatt per year.
Photovoltaic cells printed onto a flexible...
made popular Oct 14 2008
EcoFactor: New cylindrical-shaped solar cells from Solyndra claim to be more efficient and far cheaper than traditional solar panels because of their radical new...
made popular Oct 10 2008
EcoFactor: Progression in 3D solar cell growth.
William Yuan, a 12-year-old whiz kid from Beaverton came up with a new and very innovative technique which transfigures...
made popular Sep 22 2008
Eco Factor: Making a solar panel for domestic power in an inexpensive way from old and damaged solar cells.
A city skyline with all its polluting and excess lighting...
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Eco Factor: Researchers achieve highest ever efficiency rating for dye-sensitized solar cells.
Grätzel cells, or dye-sensitized solar cells as they are popularly...
made popular Nov 6 2008
Here is a new, hour-long documentary, ‘The Power of the Sun’. This film is the brainchild of solar energy historian John Perlin and Walter Kohn, a Nobel...
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