Super Slim, Efficient Solar Cells
New Innovation from German-French Collaboration
Efficiency Potential 25%
Scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer ISE and the French Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology have invented an ultra slim and more efficient solar cell. The researchers have trapped sunlight in a solar cell by incorporating an absorbing material on a nanostructured back mirror. The cell's efficiency is 20% and the scientists believe they can slim it down further and increase efficiency to 25% in the short term.
Nanostructures
Up until this breakthrough, state of the art solar cells required layers of semiconductors at least one micrometer thick. The team says controlling the fabrication process of the patterned mirror at the nanometer scale is the key to their breakthrough. The mirror traps the light in an absorber and improves optical absorption and efficiency. The team is looking to put the new solar cells into large scale production. Their work was just published in the journal Nature Energy. For a free Kindle borrow of my book "List of Top New Energy Innovations", go to amazon.com/author/ekane
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Efficiency Potential 25%
Scientists at Germany's Fraunhofer ISE and the French Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology have invented an ultra slim and more efficient solar cell. The researchers have trapped sunlight in a solar cell by incorporating an absorbing material on a nanostructured back mirror. The cell's efficiency is 20% and the scientists believe they can slim it down further and increase efficiency to 25% in the short term.
Nanostructures
Up until this breakthrough, state of the art solar cells required layers of semiconductors at least one micrometer thick. The team says controlling the fabrication process of the patterned mirror at the nanometer scale is the key to their breakthrough. The mirror traps the light in an absorber and improves optical absorption and efficiency. The team is looking to put the new solar cells into large scale production. Their work was just published in the journal Nature Energy. For a free Kindle borrow of my book "List of Top New Energy Innovations", go to amazon.com/author/ekane
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KM4XLH8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i7
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