thin-film solar cells – The InfoGreenGlobal https://infogreenglobal.com The InfoGreenGlobal Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:36:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Skyscrapers to be powered entirely by sunlight https://infogreenglobal.com/skyscrapers-to-be-powered-entirely-by-sunlight/ https://infogreenglobal.com/skyscrapers-to-be-powered-entirely-by-sunlight/#respond Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:02:29 +0000 http://infogreenglobal.com/?p=4594 In a boon for the local solar industry, a team of researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and Suntech Power Holdings have developed the world’s most efficient broadband nanoplasmonic solar cells with an absolute efficiency of 8.1 per cent. According to Swinburne Professor Min Gu, Director of the VSASF, thin film solar cells have attracted […]

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]]> https://infogreenglobal.com/skyscrapers-to-be-powered-entirely-by-sunlight/feed/ 0 Solar cells can be made thinner, lighter and cheaper https://infogreenglobal.com/solar-cells-can-be-made-thinner-lighter-and-cheaper/ https://infogreenglobal.com/solar-cells-can-be-made-thinner-lighter-and-cheaper/#respond Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:34:25 +0000 http://infogreenglobal.com/?p=2275 Solar cells are a key technology in the drive toward cleaner energy production. Unfortunately, solar technology is not yet economically competitive and the cost of solar cells needs to be brought down. One way to overcome this problem is to reduce the amount of expensive semiconductor material used, but thin-film solar cells tend to have […]

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