http://gigaom.com/cleantech/suniva-prints-20-efficient-solar-cell/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/cleantech/suniva-prints-20-efficient-solar-cell/#comment-15650 Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:32:35 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=9170#comment-15650 John Rogers, professor of science and materials engineering at the University of Illinois and his team have created a new method to produce flexible solar cells, transparent and extremely thin.

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/suniva-prints-20-efficient-solar-cell/#comment-15649 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:58:15 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=9170#comment-15649 [...] Suniva’s ARTisun cells are made from polysilicon but the company says its screen-printing process uses a fraction of the expensive material as compared to traditional silicon cells; it further claims that the ARTisun cells have an efficiency of 17.5 percent. The company is working to push that rate even higher; it recently had the DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory verify a new record for screen-printed cells of over 20 percent. [...]

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