{"id":568994,"date":"2010-05-18T17:13:12","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T21:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2428"},"modified":"2010-05-18T17:14:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T21:14:46","slug":"solar-cell-performs-better-with-anti-reflective-coating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568994","title":{"rendered":"Solar cell performs better with anti-reflective coating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar panel performance is boosted with anti-reflective coating.&#160; \u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026&#160;&#160; \u201cThis same is true of conventional solar panels, which is why some industrial solar arrays are mechanized to slowly move throughout the day so their panels are perfectly aligned with the sun\u2019s position in the sky. Without this automated movement, the panels would not be optimally positioned and would therefore absorb less sunlight. The tradeoff for this increased efficiency, however, is the energy needed to power the automation system, the cost of upkeeping this system, and the possibility of errors or misalignment.&#160; Lin\u2019s discovery could antiquate these automated solar arrays, as his antireflective coating absorbs sunlight evenly and equally from all angles.\u201d&#160;&#160; \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Via RPI: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.rpi.edu\/update.do?artcenterkey=2507\">Absorption of Sunlight<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar panel performance is boosted with anti-reflective coating.&#160; \u2026 \u2026&#160;&#160; \u201cThis same is true of conventional solar panels, which is why some industrial solar arrays are mechanized to slowly move throughout the day so their panels are perfectly aligned with the sun\u2019s position in the sky. Without this automated movement, the panels would not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568994","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\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}