Posts tagged Thin Film

Thin-film solar cells

Thin film solar cells are a relatively new invention, which will probably make the familiar solar cell unnecessary in the future . It is expected that this new technology will be responsible for a global production of 3,700 MW of energy in 2010 . But what are thin-film solar cells? Read the rest of this entry »

Solar cells

The first solar cells were developed in 1883 by Charles Fritt by covering selenium material layers with a thin layer of gold. This cell had an efficiency of only 1% and was more a “proof of concept”. Read the rest of this entry »