New Energy Technologies, Inc. recently announced that researchers have developed a novel, patent-pending process for “spraying“ solar cells and their related components onto glass.
“The ability to …
New Energy Technologies, Inc. recently announced that researchers have developed a novel, patent-pending process for “spraying“ solar cells and their related components onto glass. “The ability to spray solar coatings directly onto glass follows on the heels of our recent breakthrough which replaced visibility-blocking metal with environmentally-friendly see-thru compounds, and marks an important advance in the development of our see-thru glass windows capable of generating electricity,” announced Meetesh V. Patel, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc. “In commercial terms, this new spray technology could translate into important manufacturing advantages for our SolarWindow, including significant cost-savings, high-speed production, and room-temperature deposition – common barriers to commercial success for innovative solar technologies.” According to researchers, when scaled-up for use in commercial-scale production, the ability to spray solar coatings directly onto SolarWindow, under development at present, could provide significant commercial production advantages over today“s thin-films. The production of solar-generated electricity on glass is made possible by the world“s tiniest working solar cells, which measure less than 1/4 the size of a grain of rice, are fabricated using environmentally-friendly materials, and successfully produce electricity, which have now been successfully sprayed on to glass surfaces by researchers currently developing the company“s SolarWindow. Unique performance properties of New Energy“s ultra-small solar cells enable the development of an ultra-thin film, only 1/1000th the thickness of a human hair, or 1/10th of a micrometer. New Energy Technologies, Inc., together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, is a developer of next generation alternative and renewable energy technologies, including MotionPower technologies for generating sustainable electricity from the kinetic energy of moving vehicles and SolarWindow technologies capable of generating electricity on see-thru glass windows.