Mobile Tech
MIT startup makes transparent solar panel that will allow your smartphone to power itself
Monday, February 25, 2013
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Richard Harris |
Wouldn't the perfect mobile phone be the one that never needs charging from an outside source - TRULY wireless? A new startup that was born out of MIT last year named "Ubiquitous Energy", is hoping to make that happen with the announcement of a new transparent solar film that captures solar energy from the sun, but still allows 100% pass through of light - so it's like the solar film isn't even there!
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Imagine walking around with the freedom of not carrying chargers or battery packs with you. The implications of such a technology are far and wide.
“Current photovoltaic technology extensively utilizes the ultraviolet-visible range, but not much in the infrared range,” says Shenqiang Ren, a professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas, who is unaffiliated with the company. “Under solar radiation, there is about 45 percent radiant energy from infrared [light].”
Read more: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/149163-mit-star...
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