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Use your inkjet printer to make Paper Solar Cell Circuits

submitted by Gale Wallis

(bareboards2)
1 decade 2 years 11 months ago

From Youtube:A paper solar cell circuit is dynamically folded and unfolded while the voltage is simultaneously measured on the meter. The paper photovoltaic is illuminated from below with simulated solar illumination.

From Stranger blog: MIT reports that a team of researchers has published a new paper in the journal Advanced Materials detailing how solar cells can be printed as easily and as cheaply as "printing a photo on your inkjet" thanks to new special inks.

"The sheet of paper looks like any other document that might have just come spitting out of an office printer, with an array of colored rectangles printed over much of its surface. But then a researcher picks it up, clips a couple of wires to one end, and shines a light on the paper. Instantly an LCD clock display at the other end of the wires starts to display the time," reports MIT news. And indeed it does look basically that simple!

excerpt from: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/07/solar-cells-can-now-be-printed-on-anything-even-paper-and-fabric.php

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*promote because this is just awesome

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 6:09pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter bareboards2.

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swedishfriend says...

These produce a lot of power compared to their weight but are way less efficient than other solar panels by surface area... They could put these on pretty much every surface to help out with energy needs which would be very hard to do with other photovoltaics. They are also working on making their inks more efficient.

>> ^swedishfriend:

These produce a lot of power compared to their weight but are way less efficient than other solar panels by surface area... They could put these on pretty much every surface to help out with energy needs which would be very hard to do with other photovoltaics. They are also working on making their inks more efficient.

Interesting! Ya, I think high volume, low efficiency for solar is a good way to get the cycle started anyway. Something that you could print at home and purpose with your own imagination! Sun just makes to much sense not to harness!

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