Tag Archives : Solar cells

Today marks a day of celebration and jubilation for the one striving to become the vanguard to a revolution of epic proportions in the form of the fusion of renewable energy in our day to day lives. The immensely famous solar powered airplane from Solar Impulse had today successfully completed its maiden international flight by touching down at Brussels [...]

The much talked about and highly anticipated solar powered airplane from Solar Impulse is now gearing up for its maiden international flight from Brussels, before this aircraft is finally rolled out for its ambitious flight across the globe scheduled in the year 2012. The setting for the international flight comes just a short time after this one [...]

The race to save the environment with solar powered and zero emission vehicles, has now take to the skies with the successful 24 hour maiden flight of the experimental HB-SIA solar powered plane. This incredible feat not only put the airplane in the history books, but has also substantiated the facts, that such an airborne platform could indeed collect [...]

Kyosemi Corporation has actually come up with an idea to materialize the concept of using solar cells for domestic use. Do we even have to talk about the importance of alternative sources of energy? Sphelar solar cells have made it possible for us to incorporate the idea of solar energy into our daily life. The Tokyo based company unveiled these tiny [...]

The next Olympic Games, which will be held in the year 2012 at the Olympic Park in the city of London, will definitely leave its crowd spellbound with some of its jaw dropping structures built at the Olympic arena. “The Cloud” is one of the structures that will mesmerize the tourists. It is a 400 feet tall mesh tower, which has already [...]

Yet another airship is getting ready to flutter across the English Channel to prove its competence, but this time it’s the sun propelling it. A group of engineering and tech students from France has been working on Project Sol’R have surfaced a solar blimp, which they expect to fly across the English Channel. The dirigible measuring 72 feet long [...]

These days, germs, bacteria, and viruses are not all discarded and deemed harmful, especially the ancient kind. In fact, they are being used to ‘assemble the electronics of the future.’ Viruses are now used as building components of solar cells and other gadgets. The type of germs used is called ‘bacteriophages’ or ‘bacteria eaters.’ They [...]

John A. Rogers who is an eminent professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois has devised a way to trap the solar energy in better ways. Until now, one could only harness solar energy through solid and fixed panels that absorbed solar energy, which would later be converted to other forms of energy. He has discovered a [...]

Imagine what would happen to the future of technology if you could avail of solar cells that are so easy to manufacture that they are literally printed out like money. Apparently, this isn’t some fascinating sci-fi idea but is actually possible now. CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, has come up with a way to [...]

The University of New South Wales’ ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence previously held a record for the highest solar cell efficiency of 24.7% which has been lately modified by the same centre to 25%. This is just one among the six records achieved by the newly devised cells. With this the International Standard of measurement of efficiency of [...]