Transparent Solar Panels Record Efficiency

In a step closer to skyscrapers that serve as power sources a team led by university of michigan researchers has set a new efficiency record for color neutral transparent solar cells.

Transparent solar panels record efficiency.

The team achieved 8 1 efficiency and 43 3 transparency with an organic or carbon based design rather than conventional silicon. Transparent solar panels that could one day be used to generate renewable energy from buildings have reached a record breaking efficiency of 8 per cent researchers have said. The former 2 efficiency of the photovoltaic transparent solar panel was also from the university of michigan. Rather than using silicon researchers from the university of michigan developed an organic carbon based design that hit a record breaking efficiency of 8 with a 43 3 transparency.

Generating renewable energy from buildings via transparent solar panels is looking more and more promising. The team achieved 8 1 efficiency and 43 3 transparency with an organic or carbon based design rather than conventional silicon. Solar panels are mostly made of silicon. They broke the previous efficiency record and hit the all time high of 8 1 efficiency.

A team from the university of michigan said they had also achieved 43 3 per cent transparency with their organic carbon based design rather than using conventional silicon.