Nanostructures triple organic solar cells efficiency

Shadowcatcher
Shadowcatcher Solar Expert Posts: 228 ✭✭✭
in Solar Information links & sources, event announcements #1
Princeton researchers have found a simple and economic way to nearly triple the efficiency of organic solar cells, the cheap and flexible plastic devices that many scientists believe could be the future of solar power.

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-nanostructures-triple-solar-cells-efficiency.html
· Share on Twitter

Comments

  • westbranch
    westbranch Solar Expert Posts: 5,183 ✭✭✭✭
    #2
    Re: Nanostructures triple organic solar cells efficiency

    seems like it might make the panel hotter thus reducing output??
     
    KID #51B  4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM
    CL#29032 FW 2126/ 2073/ 2133 175A E-Panel WBjr, 3 x 4s 140W to 24V 900Ah C&D AGM 
    Cotek ST1500W 24V Inverter,OmniCharge 3024,
    2 x Cisco WRT54GL i/c DD-WRT Rtr & Bridge,
    Eu3/2/1000i Gens, 1680W & E-Panel/WBjr to come, CL #647 asleep
    West Chilcotin, BC, Canada
    · Share on Twitter
  • niel
    niel Solar Expert Posts: 10,300 ✭✭✭✭
    #3
    Re: Nanostructures triple organic solar cells efficiency
    westbranch wrote: »
    seems like it might make the panel hotter thus reducing output??

    that may very well be, but even if it didn't and works as they say, it would be very expensive to add that 175% extra production with the addition of gold into the pv and would more than likely put the costs well over what a monocrystalline pv would cost and it wouldn't output quite as much as that mono pv either.
    · Share on Twitter

Categories