The Use of the Transparent Solar System - a New Reality

Have you ever thought about the future where the power supply would be the glasses of the system you work in with all your technological gadgets? Yes, the future is already moving in that direction, though this seems too futuristic to consider. It could quickly become the truth of our daily lives and services.

Transparent Solar Cell Revolutionary

As lately, the effectiveness of color-neutral transparent solar cells, a team of scientists from the University of Michigan, has hit a further record. The team has attained productivity of 8.1% and transparency of 43.3% in organic or carbon architecture, instead of traditional silicon, according to newly released data. The first fully open solar concentrator was developed in 2014 by the university.

How is Clear Solar Power going to work?

This transparent solar cell technology works to produce electricity from the solar rays flowing through the panels of double-glazed windows. These solar cells can also allow buildings to produce energy by themselves when installed in glazed façades.

Provided that buildings with glass façades typically have a film to absorb much sunlight and minimize the luminosity and heat inside the building, these unnecessary heat and light can be used by the transparent solar cells to produce power to satisfy the building energy requirements.

Maximizing cell energy production without compromise on cell transparency is one of the biggest obstacles the technology faces. 

What is this technology's future application?

This technology's potential use will go beyond imagination. The inventions present on the market can be used for various items that we use in our everyday living, from the rooftops and windows of cars to cell phone networks, skyscrapers, wristwatches, and calculators.

The cells are crossed unimpeded by visible light, so our eyes don't know it's there. The researchers have deposited their solar cells' coatings on diverse materials by using basic room-temperature methods and used them for electronic displays with ambient light. They estimate the use of coated windows in a skyscraper could provide more than a quarter of the building's energy requirements without a change in appearance. They are now starting to incorporate their solar cells and smartphone screens into consumer goods. Every light includes electromagnetic radiation covering a wavelength range, each containing energy, which can theoretically be obtained from a solar cell. But only a portion of the continuum – called visible light – can be seen by the human eye. The light we can sense passes from the solar cell to our eyes with the proper materials and architecture; the remainder will be consumed by the solar cell—and we'd never miss it.

A modern trend

The team created a transparent PV cell inspired by Lunt's concept. The scheme below illustrates how they work together and their elements. Glass, acrylic, or other translucent substratum is the thickest layer (toward the left), with several PV-coating layers on the right. Two active layers – the absorbent semitropical material that is excited and reacts with sunlight and produces an electric field that allows the stream to flow are at the centre of the coating. The electrodes are connecting with the external circuit holding the current from the device sandwich these layers.

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