Developing and commercialising the blue LED led to the ongoing revolution in the lighting industry, something research facility CSEM wants to emulate with the development of a completely white solar panel.
Presenting at the 9th ENERGY FORUM conference on the building skins of the future (‘advanced building skins’), researcher Jordi Escarre Palou and his team from the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) showcased an all-white solar module with claimed efficiencies of over 10%.
Escarre Palou said in a statement: “We achieve the highest efficiency level through a combination of crystalline high-performance solar cells with a film treated using nanotechnology, which only filters a particular wavelength of light through to the cell and reflects the visible spectrum as a diffuse illumination.”
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