Alan Heeger Solar Panels

The next generation of solar panels promises to be less conspicuous and expensive but the technology still needs to be made more efficient said prof.

Alan heeger solar panels.

Macdiarmid and hideki shirakawa for their discovery and development of conductive polymers they published their results on polyacetylene a conductive polymer in 1977. Nobel laureate alan heeger professor of physics at uc santa barbara worked with kwanghee lee of korea and a team of other scientists to create a new tandem organic solar cell with increased efficiency. Alan heeger winner of the 2000 nobel prize. Cowan sr leong wlin banerji n dennler g heeger aj.

He won the nobel prize for chemistry in 2000 along with alan g. Alan heeger holds a flexible plastic solar cell made with a roll to roll printing tool. The discovery explained in the july 13 issue of the journal science marks a step forward in materials science. Rooftop solar mandate in san francisco now official.

Professor alan heeger at the university of california santa barbara has silicon solar panels on his roof. The liquid solar cell material can be printed from a roll to roll printing press much as newspaper is printed. Alan heeger was a founder of uniax which was acquired by dupont. Heeger says that the tandem architecture offers plenty of room for further improvement enough to eventually make plastic solar cells practical in rooftop solar panels.

That s alan heeger a nobel chemistry laureate getting enthusiastic about new uses for thin flexible semi transparent solar cells he s developing using a liquid ink material. And being bendable can be placed along curved surfaces like the outer walls or windows of high rises. Comes in different colors. But he says for most people getting electricity straight from the sun isn t easy.

Alan j heeger non fullerene acceptors have recently attracted tremendous interest due to their potential as alternatives to fullerene derivatives in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells. Enhanced first order recombination via well defined pc84bm traps in organic bulk heterojunction solar cells. The startup is called next and harnesses technology developed by nobel prize winning ucsb professor alan heeger. The transparent solar cells can generate power for air conditioning and even serve to screen from the sun s rays.