Printable Paper Solar Panels

Scientists and researchers from various universities have developed technologies which use cyanobacteria to create a living ink.

Printable paper solar panels. Konarka technologies has just. They re using off the shelf desktop inkjet printers to print paper solar panels that can power small devices and wearable technology. 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. It may still seem far fetched to imagine our houses powered by solar cells in curtains blinds and windows.

Conventional ultrathin organic solar cells are typically made by spin coating or thermal evaporation with limits on scalability and device geometry. 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. Traditional solar cells start as polysilicon which is melted and infused with boron to create a semiconductor. Print your own on an inkjet.

Then wafers of silicon are added to the surface and etched and electrical contacts. 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. 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. 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.