Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Solar energy research: The cake pan demo
Loren Kaake
Translating a scientific concept into an easy-to-understand image can be hard, but here’s how a researcher at The University of Texas at Austin did it with BBs and a cake pan.
See the video of charge transport in a cake pan
At the Electronic Frontiers Research Center (EFRC) on Charged Transport and Polymers, Loren Kaake, a post-doctoral fellow, researches how to make organic semiconductors for solar panels.
The organic materials in question are polymers, or plastics. Photovoltaic cells made from plastic would go
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