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FuelCell Energy to award two contracts for renewable biogas processing and carbon capture
FuelCell Energy, a developing and manufacturing company of ultra-clean fuel cell power plants which generate electricity with up to twice the efficiency of conventional fossil fuel plants, announced the development of 2 renewable projects worth a total of 1.7 million dollars.
read more... 14/04/2011
Smaller quantum dots can generate more energy for solar cells
New information about the efficiency of smaller quantum dots was provided by a research team from the United States-based National Science Foundation. According to them, the quantum dot solar cells are capable to produce more electricity from the same amount of absorbed light.
read more... 29/03/2011
Plasmonic dye-sensitized solar cell developed at the Stanford University, USA
First plasmonic dye - sensitized solar panels were developed by engineers of the Stanford University (USA) who used a semi-porous metal and transparent to light and electrically conductive base, called titania.
read more... 10/02/2011
Spanish researchers developed high efficient photovoltaic cells
The Micro and Nanotechnology Research Group of the Spanish Universitata Politecnica de Catalunya has realized high efficient photovoltaic cells with conversion efficiency of 20.5 percent. The new type of solar panels of 4.8 m² would produce daily an average of about 4 kWh enough to cover the energy demand of a family.
read more... 09/02/2011
New NanoMarkest report on OPV/DSC photovoltaics to reach 1.3 billion dollars by 2012.
On 20 November, NanoMarkets presented a new report entitled “Encapsulation and Flexible Substrates for Organic and Dye-Sensitized Cell Photovoltaics”.
read more... 10/01/2011