IBM Uses Liquid Metal To Boost Solar-cell Efficiency
News In experiments, the researchers managed to melt stainless steel with the magnifying apparatus, so had to work out how to cool the solar cell efficiently. Between the cell and a cooling block is a thin layer of liquid metal that conducts heat away...
[May 16, 2008, 13:20]
Silicon Balls Drop In Zero G For Solar Cell Magic
Blog Rather magically, thousands of highly efficient, highly tiny, very spherical solar cells are created. What do you think happens when you dribble molten silicon at thousands of droplets per second through a 14 metre tube?
[March 10, 2008, 21:30]
Display Company Powers Up Prospects
News CDT announced on Wednesday that it has been awarded a grant from the UK government's Department of Trade and Industry for plastic solar cell research and development. The polymer solar cells have a similar design as CDT's polymer light-emitting...
[July 25, 2002, 8:28]
CES: Motorola Cranks Out New Power Play
News Cell phone maker Motorola, searching for high-tech ways to extend battery life, will soon offer a method that smacks of kids' toys and Model T cars: wind-up. Freecharge connects to a cell phone via a plug-in adapter and wire.
[January 8, 2002, 14:13]
An End To Recharging For Mobile Phones
News The plan is to replace rechargeable batteries in mobile devices with a miniature version of the hydrogen fuel cell used to power electric cars, and recharge it with a super-efficient solar cell built into the devices.
[April 18, 2001, 14:25]
Nanotech Sheds Light On Solar Revolution
News The key was finding the right molecules to wrap around our nanoparticles," said Steve MacDonald, a University of Toronto grad student who helped develop a solar cell containing the infrared-sensitive particles.
[January 18, 2005, 16:00]
More Solar Flares Warm Satellite Concerns
News There's no example of cell phone networks being affected, but power systems have been shut down in the past," said Laszlo. The sun has erupted in a series of major solar flares for the second time in less than a week, producing geomagnetic storms...
[October 30, 2003, 9:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Even the wonderful wind-up generator in Trevor Bayliss' radios has a tightly coiled steel spring capable of slicing through the odd finger if unleashed, and I've managed to slice a thumb on the shattered glass from a broken solar cell.
[October 17, 2003, 16:25]
Emerging Mobile Tech To Watch Out For
News One of the best things about G24's solar-cell technology is that it's made in a continuous flexible strip that can be cut up to fit a wide variety of applications. G24 make nanotechnology-based flexible solar cells out of titanium and titanium...
[February 12, 2008, 11:31]
Gassy Batteries Pump Up The Power
News Canadian government researchers at the Alberta Research Council (ARC) announced this week that they have built a working prototype of a fuel cell that uses hydrogen gas as a fuel but can be adapted to run on a variety of sources such as natural...
[November 14, 2002, 7:53]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
Blog Why not have a solar cell on the thing to trickle charge the cells? Hurrah! In a breakthrough for mankind rarely equalled, London Transport has got on the Web. At last, anoraks around the world can find out fares, stations and routes; sample the...
[October 26, 1996, 7:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Weekend Diary
News Why not have a solar cell on the thing to trickle charge the cells? Hurrah! In a breakthrough for mankind rarely equalled, London Transport has got on the Web. At last, anoraks around the world can find out fares, stations and routes; sample the...
[October 26, 1996, 6:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So, any alternative to the tyranny of the cell is vastly overdue. Casio has some solar cells that achieve unheard-of efficiencies, work at very low light levels and are much easier to make than before: good, solid work that means your laptop will...
[May 17, 2001, 19:04]
Toshiba Fires Up Methanol Fuel Cell
News Toshiba next week plans to exhibit a fuel cell prototype that it said has the potential to replace environmentally taxing, rechargeable batteries with clean-energy technology. The Japanese electronics company, which ranks among the top notebook...
[March 6, 2003, 8:39]
Experts Highlight Six Key Technologies To Watch
News The other areas are cell and tissues therapies, pervasive systems (networks of intelligent and pre-programmed devices providing services and information) and simulation or modelling technologies. The final tech is plastic electronics — an area that...
[December 5, 2007, 14:52]
Nanocrystal Sheds New Light On Future Illumination
News Bowers pumped a solution containing the nanocrystals into a small glass cell and illuminated it with a laser. Barnham was interested in the possible application of illuminating the nanocrystals using solar cells, "or maybe even stimulating them...
[October 24, 2005, 16:45]
Notebook Fuel Cell A Reality This Year?
Talkback what about the environmental impact, HFC's must be made from an environmentally friendly source like wind or solar or else all of the claims that HFC's can aid the environment will be for nothing.
[March 10, 2005, 18:18]
