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High-Performance Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Based on Organic Dye

Kohjiro Hara and Nagatoshi Koumura, Research Scientists at AIST, have developed a high-performance dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) based on organic dye as part of the Grants-in-Aid Program for Scientific Research led by the New Energy and Industrial Development Organization (budget: about 5 billion yen).

16 Feb 2009

SCE and BrightSource Energy Reach Agreement on Clean Solar Thermal Power

Southern California Edison (SCE) and BrightSource Energy have reached agreement on a series of contracts for 1,300 megawatts of clean solar thermal power, enough to serve nearly 845,000 homes.

16 Feb 2009

The Start of a Revolution in the World's Energy Supply and Usage

In a few years, photovoltaic solar energy will have become a competitive energy source in major markets in the world. Without the need for subsidies. This will be the start of a revolution in the world's energy supply and usage. Are we prepared for this?

15 Feb 2009

Carmanah Partners With Shine Micro to Combine Solar-Powered Marine Lanterns With AIS Technology

Solar technology provider Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) has partnered with Shine Micro Inc. to add an automatic identification system (AIS) capability to its line of stand-alone solar-powered LED (light emitting diode) marine lanterns.

11 Feb 2009

Luna Innovations Announces Solar Cell Research Published in Nature Materials

The paper titled "Endohedral fullerenes for organic photovoltaic devices" presents a unique approach to enhance flexible, plastic solar cells, also known as organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells, by modifying the acceptor material rather than the donor material.

11 Feb 2009

NanoMarkets Announces Report on Transparent Conductors Including Indium Tin Oxide and ITO Replacement

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, today announced the addition of a new report to its schedule. The report, "Indium Tin Oxide and Alternative Transparent Conductor Markets" will be released in Mid-March of 2009.

11 Feb 2009

Japanese Researchers Develop New Process to Capture Light Energy

Japanese researchers have now developed a new process to capture light energy with nearly equal efficiency. As they report in the journal Angewandte Chemie, they "plug" a molecular "wire" directly into a biological photosynthetic system to efficiently conduct the free electrons to a gold electrode.

11 Feb 2009

Reference Book Introduces Topic of Photovoltaics in the Form of Flexible Solar Cells

With the decline in the world's natural resources, the need for new and cheaper energy sources is evolving. One such source is the sun which generates heat and light which can be harnessed and used to our advantage.

10 Feb 2009

Raising the Fundamental Power Conversion Limit of Solar Cells

A team of Los Alamos researchers led by Victor Klimov has shown that carrier multiplication-when a photon creates multiple electrons-is a real phenomenon in tiny semiconductor crystals and not a false observation born of extraneous effects that mimic carrier multiplication. The research, explained in a recent issue of Accounts of Chemical Research, shows the possibility of solar cells that create more than one unit of energy per photon.

10 Feb 2009

James Webb Space Telescope's Actual 'Spine' Now Being Built

Scientists and engineers who have been working on the James Webb Space Telescope mission for years are getting very excited, because some of the actual pieces that will fly aboard the Webb telescope are now being built.

9 Feb 2009

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