Printable Paper Solar Panels

It s a perfectly green and biodegradable source of renewable energy.

Printable paper solar panels.

Low cost printable solar panels offer ray of hope amid energy gridlock australian physicist says technology could make signing up for energy accounts as easy as a mobile phone subscription. Researchers at the king abdullah university of science and technology have developed solar panels that are thin enough to be printed with inkjet light enough to rest on a soap bubble. Paper thin solar cells on paper can now be produced with inkjet printing. A printer in the clayton office of csiro has made prototypes of the panels in order to work on the efficiency of the solar cells.

They re using off the shelf desktop inkjet printers to print paper solar panels that can power small devices and wearable technology. Print your own on an inkjet. The efficiency of these printable solar panels is still an issue since they are 10 times less efficient than most solar panels which are currently available on the market. Conventional ultrathin organic solar cells are typically made by spin coating or thermal evaporation with limits on scalability and device geometry.

It may still seem far fetched to imagine our houses powered by solar cells in curtains blinds and windows. Scientists and researchers from various universities have developed technologies which use cyanobacteria to create a living ink. Traditional solar cells start as polysilicon which is melted and infused with boron to create a semiconductor. Konarka technologies has just.

If you like the idea of solar power but aren t convinced by expensive clunky solar panels just yet here s a more manageable option.