More Electricity will be Generated from Solar Energy Resources with Quantum Particles
With the project, which has been run by Atatürk University and primarily supported by TÜBİTAK, converting solar energy to electricity...
More Electricity will be Generated from Solar Energy Resources with Quantum Particles
Based on the increasing need for energy and the necessity of meeting this need through sustainable and clean resources, Turkish scientists aim to produce high electric energy in very small fields using panels covered with quantum particles.
Faculty Member at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science of Atatürk University, Prof. Dr. Ümit Demir leads a team of nearly ten people who conduct a study to produce electric energy, in an amount even larger than the solar energy, with their project called "New Generation Nano-composites For Quantum Particle-Sensitive Solar Cells", which has been accepted to the "Support Program for R&D Projects in Priority Areas" of TÜBİTAK that funded 1 million liras for the project.
Prof. Dr. Demir claimed in his explanation for an AA reporter that the main goal of the project, which they have been working on for two months and is to be completed in thirty months, was to apply the theoretical values of efficiency into practice in obtaining electric power from solar energy by creating new generation electrodes.
Revealing their plans to do it by producing metal oxide panels covered with quantum particles in atomic size to be used as semiconductors instead of classic panels that are used in producing electric power from solar energy, "Our job is to create new generation electrodes. These electrodes include nano-plated metal oxides. We cover these metal oxides with quantum particles. We consider it a system that might increase the efficiency level of the converted solar energy to theoretical values, and maybe even make energy free of charge in the future." Demir added.
The efficiency of 100 hectares can be obtained from 1 square meters
Claiming that it will be possible to obtain the efficiency, which is normally obtained from panels planted on a hundred hectares field in converting solar energy to electric power today, from a square meter solar panel using new generation electrodes covered with nano-sized quantum particles, which his research team has produced, Demir noted:
"This kind of materials will have a great amount of conversion efficiency in tiny areas because of their nano structure. These materials are quantum particle-sensitive solar cells which are considered third-generation solar cells. If we want to meet the electricity need of Erzurum with classic solar panels today, we have to plant panels all over the plains of Erzurum. Besides, the energy that would be obtained from these panels would not meet the energy requirement of Erzurum. If we did it with nano particle-sensitive solar cells, new generation solar cells, only a panel that is 3 or 4 square-meters in size would provide the electric energy that Erzurum requires.
Faculty Member at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science of Atatürk University, Prof. Dr. Ümit Demir leads a team of nearly ten people who conduct a study to produce electric energy, in an amount even larger than the solar energy, with their project called "New Generation Nano-composites For Quantum Particle-Sensitive Solar Cells", which has been accepted to the "Support Program for R&D Projects in Priority Areas" of TÜBİTAK that funded 1 million liras for the project.
Prof. Dr. Demir claimed in his explanation for an AA reporter that the main goal of the project, which they have been working on for two months and is to be completed in thirty months, was to apply the theoretical values of efficiency into practice in obtaining electric power from solar energy by creating new generation electrodes.
Revealing their plans to do it by producing metal oxide panels covered with quantum particles in atomic size to be used as semiconductors instead of classic panels that are used in producing electric power from solar energy, "Our job is to create new generation electrodes. These electrodes include nano-plated metal oxides. We cover these metal oxides with quantum particles. We consider it a system that might increase the efficiency level of the converted solar energy to theoretical values, and maybe even make energy free of charge in the future." Demir added.
The efficiency of 100 hectares can be obtained from 1 square meters
Claiming that it will be possible to obtain the efficiency, which is normally obtained from panels planted on a hundred hectares field in converting solar energy to electric power today, from a square meter solar panel using new generation electrodes covered with nano-sized quantum particles, which his research team has produced, Demir noted:
"This kind of materials will have a great amount of conversion efficiency in tiny areas because of their nano structure. These materials are quantum particle-sensitive solar cells which are considered third-generation solar cells. If we want to meet the electricity need of Erzurum with classic solar panels today, we have to plant panels all over the plains of Erzurum. Besides, the energy that would be obtained from these panels would not meet the energy requirement of Erzurum. If we did it with nano particle-sensitive solar cells, new generation solar cells, only a panel that is 3 or 4 square-meters in size would provide the electric energy that Erzurum requires.