Hydrogen gas is considered to be the ideal fuel for combating environmental degradation. However, the biggest obstacle to hydrogen replacing petroleum as the world’s primary source of energy is the high cost of cleanly producing this gas. The most cost-effective current method for producing H2 is to use nuclear energy—but that has environmental issues. Likewise, [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Dec
03
2009
Lattice Matched Multi-Junction Photovoltaic Devices
Currently, Si wafers and related wafer processing accounts for seventy-five percent of the cost of producing conventional solar panels. With a potential concentration ratio of 500 – 1000 and double the efficiency over conventional single junction cells, the use of concentrator multi-junction solar cell technologies will dramatically reduce the fraction of the wafer cost for [...]
Dec
03
2009
Printed Electronics Thin Film Writer
The patented Thin Film Printed Electronics Writer produces the highest speed printed electronics available. Printed electronics are created using organic semiconductor materials, and are thin, flexible, and inexpensive to produce. They have many uses including flexible displays such as an ebook where readers could roll it up like today’s newspapers. Other uses include RFID tags [...]