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Printing solar cells like…. money

By On March 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Printed solar cells is one of the solutions to make solar panels. Like the Nanosolar’s printing machine, there are other initiatives starting to develop. One of them is at CSIRO Australia. Peter Batchelor, announced today the start of printing trials by Securency International, a banknote printing company.

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Konaraka is industrializing their production of flexible solar cells

By On October 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Konarka’s advanced photovoltaic technology started with the work of the late Dr. Sukant Tripathy, an internationally known polymer materials scientist, provost at UMASS Lowell and founder of the Plastic Innovation Center and Dr. Alan Heeger, Konarka’s chief scientist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000. The ground-breaking discoveries from [...]

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CIGS which are 17.7 percent effficient

By On July 25, 2008 · 3 Comments

The average efficiency of regular solar panels is 15 percent; thin-film solar cells register a lower efficiency percentage than that. Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), however, claims 17.7 percent efficiency for its flexible thin-film CIGS solar cell. To be able to achieve that impressive percentage, AIST devised CIGS [...]

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Nanosolar and First Panels CIGS

By On January 20, 2008 · 2 Comments

In one of the most significant announcements in renewable energy for the year Nanosolar, producer of CIGS solar cells made using nanoparticle ink and roll-printing technology, announced that it has shipped its first product and received their first che…

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