{"id":331690,"date":"2010-02-17T06:32:48","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T11:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2183"},"modified":"2010-02-17T06:23:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T11:23:19","slug":"silicon-nanowires-possible-solar-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/331690","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Nanowires &#8211; Possible Solar Fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"145\" border=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/i.bnet.com\/blogs\/silicon-nanowire.jpg\" alt=\"Silicon Nanowire\" title=\"Silicon Nanowire\" \/>Scientists from CalTech have developed technology that might lead efficient solar cells from silicon nanowires.&nbsp; This could lead to all sorts of configurations for solar cells including fabrics.<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; CalTech scientists say they have the underlying technology. Silicon nanowires, arranged in arrays, have been engineered that &#8230; grab power from visible light &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; a cell geometry that not only uses 1\/100th the material of traditional wafer-based devices, but also may offer increased photovoltaic efficiency owing to an effective optical concentration of up to 20 times &#8230;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; CalTech&rsquo;s cells have efficiency comparable to solar panels now being installed on roofs.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If nanowires can be woven into a viable matrix, combined with other material, it means fabrics can double as solar connectors, once they have a way to off-load the power they create.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Via:&nbsp;<\/strong> SmartPlanet&nbsp; <a title=\"Smart Planet\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/technology\/blog\/thinking-tech\/silicon-wires-make-your-drapes-a-solar-cell\/3097\/?tag=content;col1\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from CalTech have developed technology that might lead efficient solar cells from silicon nanowires.&nbsp; This could lead to all sorts of configurations for solar cells including fabrics. &quot; &#8230; CalTech scientists say they have the underlying technology. Silicon nanowires, arranged in arrays, have been engineered that &#8230; grab power from visible light &#8230;&quot; &quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}