Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Solar cells from a spray can are just three to five years away, according to researchers at the University of Texas at Austin.
Brian Korgel has developed inks with a university research team that are made of nanoparticles of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) that are 10,000 times thinner than a strand of hair.
These can then be printed onto sheets at a much cheaper cost than current methods of producing solar panels.
"We'd have some sort of flexible substrate, maybe plastic or metal foil, and it would be on a spool and be unrolled. And the nanocrystals would be sprayed on," Matthew Panthani, a doctoral student and graduate research assistant in Korgel's lab, told the LiveScience Web site.
The inks today can convert 1 percent of the sunlight that hits them cell into electricity.
"If we get to 10 percent, then there's real potential for commercialization," Korgel told LiveScience. "If it works, I think you could see it being used in three to five years."
Korgel co-founded Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Innovalight Inc., but left that company in 2005. Innovalight is working on silicon-based solar cell printing technology which a spokesman said is completely different from what the Texas researchers are working on.
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Going GREEN is not only changing the sources of the energy we use. But also implementing many changes in different aspects of your life. Using environmentally friendly products is just one of the other ways to help keep the EARTH GREEN!! SOLAR ENERGY sources can be used in conjunction with many other products to add to the benefits for a GREENER tomorrow. If you have any products related to SOLAR ENERGY or using SOLAR POWER. Please leave me a comment and I will be sure to get back to you.
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