Printable Paper Solar Panels

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.

Printable paper solar panels.

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. It s a perfectly green and biodegradable source of renewable energy. Then wafers of silicon are added to the surface and etched and electrical contacts. 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.

This will allow solar cells to be much cheaper and be placed almost anywhere. 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. But some scientists say it will eventually be possible to print photovoltaic elements on a huge range of surfaces and materials creating cheap printable solar cells in place of more costly silicon panels. 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. Print your own on an inkjet. Scientists and researchers from various universities have developed technologies which use cyanobacteria to create a living ink. 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.

Paper thin solar cells on paper can now be produced with inkjet printing.