Moths and rust helped to create a unique solar panel Bashny.Net

    




A group of scientists from Switzerland, working on improving the efficiency of solar panels used in their creation the principle of operation of the eyes of moths. The body of these insects is able to absorb maximum light in the darkness, but it is almost never reflects it, thereby reducing the likelihood of being spotted by predators.

This property is ensured by the structure of the eye, consisting of several microspheres. Penetrating through them, the light rays are almost not reflected, the upper blockerase microspheres. A few such reflections between the microspheres completely extinguish the luminous flux, ensuring its complete absorption.

Transferring this characteristic moths to solar panels, the researchers applied to the surface of microparticles of an oxide of tungsten, which are coated with a layer of ordinary rust. Luminous flux falling on the solar panel of this design, the maximum absorbed by the tungsten, and hardly reflects through a layer of iron oxide. Between the layers there were the dying of the light variations, allowing the most efficient use of solar energy.

It is also important that this design solar panels will not generate energy to produce hydrogen by splitting water. Eliminating one link in the chain of converting solar energy into fuel, significantly increases the efficiency of solar panels, and cheapness of their manufacture by this technology opens up broad prospects for large-scale distribution. According to experts, the use of such panels, it will be possible to compare the yield even with binary options (what are options read on rusmmg.ru), now widely regarded as the best option for investment.

Representatives of the team of scientists who created the technology, say that at this stage they are not going to stop. In the near future planned experiments to increase the number of layers of tungsten oxide and iron oxide, which according to the calculations of researchers should give even more impressive results.

And only their results will be possible to talk about industrial application of innovative technologies of building solar panels.

Source: zeleneet.com