The thermoelectric devices and steam turbines would be driven by heat collected and stored using mirrors to focus sunlight onto a “selective solar absorber and reflector.” To efficiently collect heat ...

Novel solar absorber to improve efficiency of concentrating solar power technology Date: June 9, 2016 Source: Masdar Institute of Science and Technology Summary: Researchers have discovered a ...

Scientists have built the thinnest, most efficient absorber of visible light on record, a nanosize structure that could lead to less-costly, more efficient, solar cells. Stanford University ...

A group of researchers led by the Autonomous University of Querétaro in Mexico have proposed for the first time to fabricate thin-film solar cells relying on an absorber made of silver ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists from the National Institute of Education/Nanyang Technological University of Singapore developed a method for converting fruit wastes such as coconut husks, orange peels, ...

Researchers led by Dartmouth College in the United States have identified zintl-phosphide (BaCd2P2) as a potential new absorber material for thin-film solar cells after conducting a high ...

ABU DHABI, 8th June, 2016 (WAM) -- The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology faculty has discovered a novel way to significantly increase the amount of sunlight that a solar absorber can convert ...