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Transparent Solar Panel, Working, History, Advantages, Disadvantages

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Hello Guys, welcome back to my blog. In this article, I will discuss what is a transparent solar panel, the working of transparent solar panels, the application of transparent solar panels, and the comparison with other panels.

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Transparent Solar Panel

History Of Transparent Solar Panel

01. The transparent solar panel was invented in august 2014

02. It was discovered by Michigan state university.

03. Richard Lunt the man who was involved in the research says that transparent solar panels will have more efficiency and can be easily used to generate a large amount of energy.

Why Transparent Solar Panel

Before the discovery of transparent solar panels, the solid and flexible solar panels were discovered but they both have some drawbacks that they were not transparent the solid and flexible solar panels were dark in color this was the main drawback. The future plan is to replace all office windows, car windows with a transparent solar panel to generate energy.

We can also use a solid dark or flexible dark in a color solar panel? No, we can’t use solid dark or flexible dark solar panels in the windows of offices and cars because they do not allow sunlight to enter inside but if we use transparent solar panels then the sunlight can easily enter inside the office or car. If we use solid black color panels in windows most people want sunlight inside the office, they don’t like it, so transparent solar panel has many advantages compared to other panels.

Working Of Transparent Solar Panel

The solar panels pretty much only come in one color i.e., dark. That is because they use dark sheets of silicon crystals to absorb the sun’s rays, then turn them into electrical energy and solar panels are becoming so cheap and so efficient that soon whole cities can run on sunlight, except that almost all the sun-catching area in cities is on the sides of buildings, which are usually designed to let light it.

We could plaster solar panels all over the sides of buildings, but that would be sad for the people inside. However, there might be another way scientists recently invented a solar panel that looks like a window, in fact, it is a window except that it’s embedded with a thin layer of tiny silicon particles called quantum dots that absorb some of the shorter wavelengths of incoming light while letting the rest pass through.

The dots then re-emit the energy in longer wavelengths, which bounce along the window pane, rather than escaping because of a physics thing called total internal reflection and because the quantum dots only absorb shorter wavelengths, those re-emitted waves travel through the pane without being reabsorbed by other dots.

When they reach the edge, they hit tiny solar cells that convert them into electricity because these solar windows capture some light, they’re not 100% transparent, but actually, neither are normal skyscraper windows they’re usually coated with reflective material to keep some of the sun’s energy out, but solar windows aren’t yet as efficient as typical solar panels, and engineers are still working out to come up with new ideas but this transparent solar panel can be used for several years.

Advantage And Disadvantages Of Transparent Solar Panels

Advantage

  1. The main advantage is it is transparent.
  2. All windows in the house and office can be replaced by this panel.
  3. Lightweight
  4. Easy to carry

Disadvantages

  1. Efficiency is less compared to typical solar panels.
  2. The price will be more. 

Applications Of Transparent Solar Panels

  1. In the mobile phone display.
  2. Windows of cars.
  3. Mirrors of a bike.
  4. In the windows of the office and the house.
  5. On the bike helmet.

I hope this article may help you all a lot. Thank you for reading. If you have any doubts related to this article “transparent solar panel”, then comment below in the comment box.

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