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• New solar-cell coating could boost efficiency

  Throughout decades of research on solar cells, one formula has been considered an absolute limit to the efficiency of such devices in converting sunlight into electricity: Called the Shockley-Queisser efficiency limit, it posits that the ultimate conversion efficiency can never exceed 34 percent for more

• New centre to focus on harvest and storage of solar energy

  Imagine a car coated with a surface that can simultaneously capture and store energy from the sun’s rays. It would solve one of the main problems associated with solar cells – they don’t work at night or in foul weather. Paint which combines the properties of both solar cells and batteries is the ul more

• Solar panel oversupply is a good thing, says Resnick Sustainability Institute director

  The current oversupply of solar modules which is putting tremendous pressure on the industry and its financial backers has led to a generally negative view of the solar industry. However, according to Dr. Harry A. Atwater, Director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech, while the curren more

Publications Solar Panels

• Energies, Vol. 6, Pages 1669-1699: Li-Ion Battery Charging with a Buck-Boost Power Converter for a Solar Powered Battery Management System

  This paper analyzes and simulates the Li-ion battery charging process for a solar powered battery management system. The battery is charged using a non-inverting synchronous buck-boost DC/DC power converter. The system operates in buck, buck-boost, or boost mode, according to the supply voltage con more

• Controllable Particle Adhesion with a Magnetically Actuated Synthetic Gecko Adhesive

  Abstract Particle capture and release using controllable adhesion is of growing interest in many fields including reusable adhesives, solar panel cleaning, micro‐manipulation and robot locomotion where current methods of particle management are not sufficient. Here controllable adhesion to glass more

• Techno-Ecological Synergy as a Path Toward Sustainability of a North American Residential System

  For any human-designed system to be sustainable, ecosystem services that support it must be readily available. This work explicitly accounts for this dependence by designing synergies between technological and ecological systems. The resulting techno-ecological network mimics nature at the systems l more

Market studies Solar Panels

• Global Metallic Silicon Market: An Analysis

  Silicon metal is used by the chemical and aluminum industries as a key input or raw material into large number of consumer and industrial products, which range from cosmetics, sealants, computer chips to solar panels. Worldwide silicon metal market entered an average-growth phase in 2010, in respons more

• Sekisui Chemical Co Ltd - Financial Analysis Review

  Sekisui Chemical Co Ltd - Financial Analysis Review Summary Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd. (Sekisui Chemical) is a Japan-based company. The company is engaged in the construction and sale of houses in Japan. Sekisui Chemical offers high performance plastic products, which include semiconductor materia more

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