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Organic Solar Concentrator Developed
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 - Janice Karin
Covalent Solar of Boston, Massachusetts has developed an organic solar concentrator that traps specific wavelengths of light...

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Transparent Solar Cells Fitted Onto Windows

Saturday, May 9th, 2009 - 14:28:47 - Anuradha Menon

Solar company Konarka has developed a transparent solar cell that it hopes will be built onto electricity-generating windows. The Lowell, Mass.-based...

Making Solar Cheaper than Coal

Sunday, March 8th, 2009 - 20:37:35 - Iddo Genuth

Starting in the 1970s, the Masssachussetts Institute of Technology mechanical-engineering professor had made significant contributions to solar...

Better Thermal Photovoltaics

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 - 16:01:42 - Anuradha Menon

A new approach to converting heat into electricity using solar cells could make a technology called thermal photovoltaics (TPVs) more practical...

Boosting the Power of Solar Cells

Friday, November 28th, 2008 - 14:21:02 - Anuradha Menon

New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team...

Cylindrical Solar Panels

Thursday, October 9th, 2008 - 12:40:18 - Anuradha Menon

Solyndra, Inc. today announced a new solar photovoltaic (PV) system for the commercial rooftop market. Solyndra's PV system is designed to generate...

Toward Textile-Based Solar Cells

Saturday, August 30th, 2008 - 12:25:33 - Anuradha Menon

A 100km2 area covered with 10% efficient solar cells can produce enough electricity to satisfy the national requirement. Unfortunately, the total...

Getting Wrapped Up In Solar Textiles

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 - 14:38:49 - Ehud Rattner

Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic...

Solar UAV to set a new World Record
Friday, March 9th, 2007 - Iddo Genuth
A team of students from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa is working on a new solar powered unmanned aerial...