Martin Aagesen has discovered ‘future solar cells’, as he calls his new researched material, Nano Flakes. The nano flakes are going to help improve the capability of solar cells in converting the sun’s clean energy into electricity. Aagesen, a PhD from the Nano-science center and the Neil’s Bohr Institute at University of Copenhagen, said about his discovery that they might prove to be a huge step towards improving the world’s exploitation of solar energy. According to him the nano flakes have the capacity to convert 30% of the sun’s energy into electricity and that is going to be twice the capacity of the solar cell converts today.
While working on the PhD thesis, Aagesen discovered a perfect crystalline structure that also absorbed light and can become the perfect solar cell. At present the solar cells’ production mainly depends upon the semiconducting silicium, which is quite expensive and this technology will reduce the production cost as well as the loss of energy too. Sunflake Inc. is at present engaged in the development of the new solar cells and Aagesen is the director of the company.
This year in June SANYO broke its own record for the world’s highest energy conversion efficiency by demonstrating an efficiency of 22%. Last year in December, by using a photovoltaic cell to convert 40.7% of the sun’s energy into electricity, Spectrolab had achieved the world record in terrestrial concentrator solar cell efficiency. According to the Global Warming Solutions, with the help of a special coating on the solar cells their efficiency of energy conversion will increase.
Via:Gizmag
