Solar Cell from Copperđź‘Ť

How to make solar cell from copper plate and cuprous oxide. https://goo.gl/gH6hmP It’s a Diy tutorial to make Solar cell. Cuprous oxide is a semiconductor, just like doped silicon, and was one of the first materials experimented with as a solar cell. But its efficiency was found to be so low, around 1%, that researchers … Read more

UKM Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car

The UKM Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car is a golf cart powered by a UKM-designed and built 3 kW Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) using hydrogen energy developed by the Fuel Cell Institute UKM. The UKM Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car is: Very environmental friendly Zero emission High energy efficiency of 50% (cf. normal car engine … Read more

How does a solar cell work?

We have discuss here the very basic working principle of a solar cell In this video, Mr. Adams explains how PN Junctions are used in silicon photovoltaic devices (solar cells) to create electricity. He attempts to explain a very difficult process in simple, easy to understand terms so that his high school students can better … Read more

Public Lecture—A Blueprint for New Fuel Cell Catalysts

Lecture Date: Tuesday, March 26th. Daniel Friebel, a SLAC associate staff scientist who studies chemical processes involving catalysts, delivered the March 26 SLAC Public Lecture, “A Blueprint for New Fuel Cell Catalysts.” Friebel’s talk details how X-ray research at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, coupled with sophisticated computations at SLAC’s SUNCAT Center for Interface Science … Read more