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Low maintenance, long lasting sources of energy.
Provides cost-effective power supplies for people remote
from the main electricity grid.
Non-polluting and silent sources of electricity.
Convenient and flexible source of small amounts of
power.
Renewable and sustainable power, as a means to reduce
global warming.
In 2002, the global market for photovoltaic panels and
equipment was valued at 3.5 billion dollars.
The plastic solar cells uses nanotechnology and contains the first
solar cells able to harness the sun's invisible, infrared rays.
Plastic solar cells could one day become five more times more
efficient that current solar cell technology.
The working of this type of solar cells is same as that of
conventional solar cells but these solar cells are of small size and
harness all the rays from sun's radiation.
Because of their small size and light weight, they exhibit unusual
and interesting properties.
Plastic solar cell can turn the suns power into electric energy
even on a cloudy day.
The plastic material uses nanotechnology and contains the

1stgeneration solar cells that can harness the sun’s invisible
infrared rays.
Nano particles called quantum dots are combined with a

polymer to make the plastic that can detect energy in the
infrared
The solar cell created is actually a hybrid, comprised of tiny
nanorods dispersed in an organic polymer or plastic.
Nanorods are made of cadmium selenide.
This layer of around 200 nanometers thickness is sandwiched
between electrodes.
The electrodes are coated with aluminum.
 Nanorods in the plastic solar cell acts like wires when
they absorb light of specific wavelength they generate an
electron and electron hole vacancy in the rod that moves
around just like an electron
 This electron travels the length of rod until it is
collected by aluminium electrode
 The hole is transferred to the plastic which is known as a
hole carrier and conveyed to the electrode creating current
 Some of the obvious improvements include
better light collection and concentration, which
already are employed in commercial solar cells.
 Significant improvements can be made in the
plastic, nanorods mix, too, ideally packing the
nanorods closer together, perpendicular to the
electrodes, using minimal polymer, or even none-
the nanorods would transfer their electrons more
directly to the electrode.
In their first-generation solar cells, the
nanorods are jumbled up in the polymer,
leading to losses of current via electron-hole
recombination and thus lower efficiency.
 They also hope to tune the nanorods to absorb
different colors to span the spectrum of sunlight.
An eventual solar cell has three layers each made
of nanorods that absorb at different wavelength.
PV CELLS NANO- SOLAR CELLS
Made of some special Constructed using Nano-
material called technology
semiconductors.
Cost is less because less
material is used
Expensive because of
manufacturing process Compact and require less
space, Efficiency is more
Requires large space,
Efficiency is less Nano- solar cell that can
turn the suns power into
It won’t work under cloudy electricity energy even on a
conditioned cloudy days
It contains the 2nd
It can’t harness the sun’s
generation solar cell that
invisible infrared rays
can harness the sun’s
invisible infrared rays
Development of a super thin disposable solar panel poster
A hydrogen powered car painted with the film could potentially
convert energy into electricity to continually recharge the car’s
battery.
Any chip coated in the material could power cell phone or other
wireless devices.
They are considered to be 30% more efficient when compared
to conventional solar cells.
Traditional solar cells are bulky panels. This is very compact.
Flexible, roller processed solar cells have the potential to turn
the sun’s power into a clean, green, consistent source of
energy.
The biggest problem with this is cost effectiveness. But that
could change with new material. But chemists have found a
way to make cheap plastic solar cells flexible enough to paint
onto any surface and potentially able to provide electricity for
wearable electronics or other low power devices.
Relatively shorter life span when continuously exposed to

sunlight.
Could possibly require higher maintenance and constant

monitoring.
Plastic solar cells help in exploiting the infrared radiation.
More effective when compared to conventional solar cells.
They can even work on cloudy days.
Though at present cost is a major drawback, it can be solved
in the near future.

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The plastic material uses nanotechnology and contains the

Nano particles called quantum dots are combined with a

Relatively shorter life span when continuously exposed to

Could possibly require higher maintenance and constant

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