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11 September 2020
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Transparent solar panels and Quantum Dots will collect energy everywhere

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Transparent solar panels and Quantum Dots will collect energy everywhere
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Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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The technologies to obtain transparent solar panels are making great strides, and will soon power cities in the most disparate ways and points.

I told you long ago, in one of the most read posts on the blog, the ranking of the tallest skyscrapers in the world. Imagine that all that sea of ​​glass is able to gather energy from the sun.

It is a futuristic vision that could soon become reality. The key lies in creating transparent solar panels which, when placed in windows, collect energy from the sun. Basically the solar version of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak.

Even smartphone displays could be equipped with these panels to recover some of the energy, and extend battery life.

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Transparent solar panels and Quantum Dots
The team with the newly obtained transparent solar panels

Transparent solar panels: new efficiency record

Researchers have set new performance records for neutral-colored transparent solar cells. Today we are at 8,1% efficiency: it's a crazy leap if you consider the previous 2-3%. Transparency also sets an efficiency record with 43,3%, thanks to an organic design based on carbon rather than conventional silicon.

Currently the glass on the facades of skyscrapers has a coating that serves to reflect and absorb some of the light to reduce the brightness and heat inside. Instead of throwing this energy away, transparent solar panels could harness it.

“The windows, which are located on the facade of every building, are an ideal place for organic solar cells because they offer something that silicon cannot. A combination of very high efficiency and very high visible transparency ”, they explain Stephen Forrest, university professor of engineering and Paul G. Goebel, professor of engineering.

The technologies to obtain transparent solar panels are making great strides, and will soon power cities in the most disparate ways and points.
One of the researchers shows the transparency of a panel

Towards the next milestone

UbiQD, an advanced materials company from New Mexico, continues its development of transparent solar panels that are indistinguishable from normal glass. The secret is the use of Quantum Dots, "Quantum dots". Microscopic particles that have the ability to manipulate light to harness energy.

These are super nanoparticles of material: to cover the surface of a nail it would take about 100.000. This technology can be a game changer for reducing massive loads from large power grids and perhaps also be an integral part of planning future cities that will run on solar energy.

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Gianluca Riccio, copywriter and journalist - Born in 1975, he is the creative director of an advertising agency, he is affiliated with the Italian Institute for the Future, World Future Society and H +, Network of Italian Transhumanists.

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