A new 3D solar cell that would revolutionize the solar industry have been designed. The amazing thing about the news is that the inventor of the novel solar panel is a 12-year-old student from Beaverton, Oregon that believes his 3D solar cell will bring solar power to a higher place.
“A Highly-Efficient 3-Dimensional Nanotube Solar Cell” (that’s how William Yuan named his invention) is able to absorb up to 500 times more light than the nowadays conventional solar cells and up to 9 times more than the state-of-the-art 3D solar cells.
This is possible thanks to the carbon nanotubes, designed by the 7th grade student, that are making the light-electricity conversion two times more efficient and overcome the barriers of electron movement. The little genius made all this possible with his optimized design that also includes a computer program and solar towers designs.
The invention brought the 12-Yer-old boy a $25,000 scholarship, but it will proove hard to gain investment because of his age. Anyhow, Davidson Institute for Talent Development accepted him in their fellowship, and the young boy may be set for some awards in science and engineering.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
The article was a little light on substance however if this material has the efficiencies indicated in the article then finding funding/venture capital will not be hard. Buy stock in the kid.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
So what’s the news? It sounds more like “Kid takes already existing 3d solar cells, makes them bigger and better.”. How does he make it better? That’s the important part, you know, the how.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Someone else has already invented this… he is stealing.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
>is able to absorb up to 500 times more light than the nowadays conventional solar cells
I call BS. Current panels run 20% efficiency. I doubt you can gather 500x that amount. You may be able to double or triple it, but there is that 100% limit that you won’t be able to go past.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I wish to purchase a 51% stake of said kid.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Here are a few data points and links about the 3D Solar Cell, which was invented by Dr. Jud Ready of GA Tech in March 2005. See http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=13...
The 3D Solar Cell has the potential to be breakthrough in the solar industry. The global and exclusive license to the 3D Solar Cell intellectual property is held by IP2BIZ in Atlanta http://www.ip2biz.com/Offerings/ProofCoProjects.a... The license is for sale to an firm that can further develop, manufacture and bring it to market.
What is very interesting is if you look at the animation of Dr. Ready’s solar cell, at http://www-stage.gatech.edu/news-room/flash/CNTpv... you’ll notice that the graphics in the photo of this Oregon boy’s presentation are the spitting image of Dr. Ready’s.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Here are a few data points and links about the 3D Solar Cell, which was invented by Dr. Jud Ready of GA Tech in March 2005. See http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=1337
The 3D Solar Cell has the potential to be breakthrough in the solar industry. The global and exclusive license to the 3D Solar Cell intellectual property is held by IP2BIZ in Atlanta http://www.ip2biz.com/Offerings/ProofCoProjects.asp#ThreeDSolarCells The license is for sale to an firm that can further develop, manufacture and bring it to market.
What is very interesting is if you look at the animation of Dr. Ready’s solar cell, at http://www-stage.gatech.edu/news-room/flash/CNTpv.html you’ll notice that the graphics in the photo of this Oregon boy’s presentation are the spitting image of Dr. Ready’s.
Dr. Ready’s PCT patent application WO/2007/040594 was published in April 2007 at http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/fetch.jsp?LANG=ENG&DBSELECT=PCT&SERVER_TYPE=19-10&SORT=41238067-KEY&TYPE_FIELD=256&IDB=0&IDOC=1349795&C=10&ELEMENT_SET=B&RESULT=1&TOTAL=1&START=1&DISP=25&FORM=SEP-0/HITNUM,B-ENG,DP,MC,AN,PA,ABSUM-ENG&SEARCH_IA=US2006007290&QUERY=%28WO%2fwo2007040594%29+
September 20th, 2008 at 1:20 am
http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/casestudy/3d-solar-cells-boost-efficiency
Unfortunatly for the 12 year old boy but this was invented in 2007 by Georgia Tech who have had a working prototype since 2007.
If I steal an invention off an article I found on the internet, can I get world wide press coverage for how brilliant I am too?
I wouldn’t buy stock in the kid since they banned selling short this week.
September 20th, 2008 at 1:45 am
A photo or diagram of this great 3d cell would be nice.
No one has one!
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November 25th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
So…no prototype…basically rips off previous work…yeah, the kid is a genius. He’s taken bald faced lying to new realms.
Nevermind the “500x more light” bullshit. Apparently nano-boy never heard about flux. You can’t get 500x more energy from an AREA just by giving it depth.