3M Solar Mirror Films for Solar Utility Applications
Carbon-Based Solar Cell that is Cost Effective, Coming Soon
Spray on Solar Film May Make Windows the New Solar Panels
Gossamer Upgraded Solar Troughs: Better Performance and Lower Cost for CSP Installations
Prism Makes $1 a Watt Unique Solar Hybrid of Holographic Thin-Film and PV
Mirror Film 330 Showcased by 3M
SunPower to use Solar Concentrators to Increase Solar Cells Efficiency
Cogenra Solar Concentrator uses PV - Thermal Cogeneration Technology
The Secret to a Better Solar Cell? A Trillion Holes
Ultra-Lightweight, Affordable Solar Panel Technology uses 1/100 of Silicon in Conventional
World's Largest Concentrated Solar Farm to be Built in Colorado
3M Develops Low Cost Solar Mirror Film for Solar Thermal Troughs
One-Step Process for Photovoltaic Cell Production Could Make Solar Competitive
Transparent Solar Material Could Lead to Solar Windows
Amonix Concentrating Solar PV Cells achieve 39 Percent Efficiency
Solar Film for Windows uses Shrinky Dinks
Shrink Solar LLC, a subsidiary of Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc., has been formed to market a solar film -- QuantumSol Solar PV -- that can be retrofit onto windows. The low-cost method for producing the solar film was conceived when the founder, Dr. Michelle Khine, printed a solar channel design onto the plastic material for the popular toy known as Shrinky Dinks and heated it in an oven. This experiment replicated and miniaturized her design so successfully she was able to coat the original with polymers and use it as a mold for the diagnostic chip.
According to the Shrink Solar website, their Quantum Dot technology is the 'third generation of solar cell technology" and enhances the ability of a photovoltaic cell. Unlike conventional solar technology that uses mirrors to collect sunlight to convert into energy, Shrink Solar's film has an "OptiSol Concentrator" that uses nanocrystals to absorb a broader spectrum of the light striking a window. The solar film can be integrated into existing solar collection units to boost power.
Both the OptiSol and QuantumSol products are made of environmentally friendly sustainable materials and are relatively inexpensive to produce.
Recommended for Further Reading:
- 3M Solar Mirror Films for Solar Utility Applications
- Carbon-Based Solar Cell that is Cost Effective, Coming Soon
- Spray on Solar Film May Make Windows the New Solar Panels
- Gossamer Upgraded Solar Troughs: Better Performance and Lower Cost for CSP Installations
- Prism Makes $1 a Watt Unique Solar Hybrid of Holographic Thin-Film and PV
- Mirror Film 330 Showcased by 3M
- SunPower to use Solar Concentrators to Increase Solar Cells Efficiency
- Cogenra Solar Concentrator uses PV - Thermal Cogeneration Technology
- The Secret to a Better Solar Cell? A Trillion Holes
- Ultra-Lightweight, Affordable Solar Panel Technology uses 1/100 of Silicon in Conventional
- World's Largest Concentrated Solar Farm to be Built in Colorado
- 3M Develops Low Cost Solar Mirror Film for Solar Thermal Troughs
- One-Step Process for Photovoltaic Cell Production Could Make Solar Competitive
- Transparent Solar Material Could Lead to Solar Windows
- Amonix Concentrating Solar PV Cells achieve 39 Percent Efficiency
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