New anti-reflecting coating of photovoltaic modules leads to a lowering of investment needed for the construction of solar systems

Large investments needed to build a solar system for electricity production are driven mainly by the high price of photovoltaic panels and their still under greater efficiency. For example produced in silicon photovoltaic modules currently absorb about 2 / 3 of incident sunlight on them and reflect the remaining 1 / 3. Changing this ratio in favor of the absorbed light would increase the efficiency of photovoltaic modules as a result of which would go down and investment necessary to build a comprehensive system.

Developed by a team from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute new anti-reflecting coating ensures absorption of sunlight by about 96%. In this case, steady-mounted photovoltaic panels will absorb approximately 96% of the sun, regardless of the position of the sun towards them, thus largely render unnecessary the use of guidance systems to sunlight. This is another factor reducing the cost of using solar modules manufactured by new technologies.
Along with the above advantages can not be overlooked issues related to the cost of future production of photovoltaic panels with anti-reflecting coating.

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