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Eco Factor: New solar cells promise an efficiency of 6%. Researchers at the University of California have designed a new solar cell which will be far cheaper than conventional silicon cells, maybe up to 10 times cheaper. This new method will not...

Eco Factor: Core-Shell Silicon Nanowires can improve the capacity of Li-Ion batteries. Technologies of the future will depend more on portable power sources than on anything else. The performance of these batteries needs to be considerably...

Eco Factor: Replacing graphite anode with nano-silicon enhances current storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries. The only factor preventing global adoption of electric cars is the limited driving range of cars running on lithium batteries. The...

One of the major reasons why the world is not taking up solar energy as rapidly as it should is because of the simple fact that the initial installation cost is too much to take. In the past decade or so, the prices of the raw material to prepare solar.

Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory’s physicist Neil Greenham has conceived of an organic solar cell that doesn't use expensive silicon. Let’s first take a look at how conventional solar cells work. Conventional photovoltaic...

A Japanese company named Clean Venture 21 (CV21) claims to curb the overall cost of producing solar cells by 50 percent. Isn’t that a remarkable step up for a greener tomorrow? The key to produce cheap effective solar cells is placing tiny...

Cost has always been one of solar’s biggest problems. Traditional solar cells require silicon, and silicon is an expensive commodity and upto 70 percent of the silicon gets wasted in the manufacturing process. That means even the cheapest...

The most reliable renewable source of energy to power electronic gadgets as we have seen is the solar energy and fuel cells. Photovoltaic cells are commonly used alternatives to harness solar energy. Various models have evolved through various...

IBM has been, for long, a pioneer in technological advancement & gadgetry. Now they have come up with a unique eco-friendly way to solve the problem of Silicon shortage. While the technology might not solve the problem entirely, it solves it to an...

Solar panels have always been perceived to be flat and expensive. Proving this common notion wrong is a Japanese company Kyosemi Corporation, which has developed Sphelar, a matrix of tiny spherical shaped solar cells as small as 1mm in...