Quo vadis, Concentrating Technologies? Luminescent Optical Concentrators or Light Amplifiers?

The researches conducted by Greenpeace International, European Thermal Electricity Association and International Energy Agency found that by 2050 about 25% of all necessities of humanity in energy will be satisfied by means of concentrating solar technologies. Such prospects multiply the requirements to optical concentrators     more...

Optical Waveguide Concentrators of Photovoltaic Solar Modules

The possibilities of production of electric power with the help of only electronic photovoltaic technologies are very attractive. But it is necessary to admit that this fantastically large attractiveness can not be in a complete measure realized in tearing off from optical methods and optical devices     more...

Thin film diffractive holographic solar concentrators

One of serious problems, which appears before the developers of sun elements, is a creation of high effective thin film devices of concentration of optical radiation     more...

Refractive and mirror concentrators of solar power systems

The necessity of creation of powerful solar plants needs in the use of large beams of sun radiation that are caught by large optical focusing elements     more...

From superconductivity to super-semiconductivity: Will super-semiconductor solar cells appear?

Sun technologies of first and second generations are found only on a way to confession and conquest of power market. To improve the energy effectiveness of thin film solar elements the main efforts of researchers above all are directed onto the development of exitonic and tandem structures     more...

Thin film photovoltaic sun technologies are only on a way to energy market

In accordance with the transversal sizes (thickness) of semiconductor structure the sun elements can be de classified onto the bulk and thin film structures. In an ideal a phase-morphological structure is identical for both types of sun elements and differs only     more...

Point of departure: photovoltaic solar cells today and tomorrow

The sun photovoltaic technologies and systems are today one of the most attractive markets of renewable energy. It is explained by     more...

Biult-In Laser Structures Boost Electric Current in Solar Cells

The technology of receiving of electric energy by means of photo-electric modules is today examined as one of the most perspective methods of the use of renewable energy of sun radiation     more...

Applied Science at Georgia Tech: Superhydrophobic Treatment Boost Efficiency of Photovoltaic Cells

Using two different types of chemical etching to create features at both the micron and nanometer size scales, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a surface treatment that could boost the light absorption of silicon photovoltaic     more...

Applied Science at Georgia Tech: Suniva - Solar Cell Manufacturer

Using technology developed at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Suniva Inc. has become the first solar cell manufacturer in the Southeast     more...
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