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In future, to further enhance the efficiency of solar energy, nanoscaled solar materials can be used. The nanoscaled solar materials offers a solution in increasing panel’s efficiency by allowing the light to flow through the surface and stored into the material. There are many ways these nano scaled metamaterial can be applied in our real lives in the future. With further research, these metamaterials can be used to create appliances such as “super solar panels”. Although, it was once only a theoretical structure that could capture images below the diffraction limit through the use of the negative refractive index, scientists are now one step closer in producing it. We can also apply this technique to produce a fancier design of super mini solar cells. `With these appliances, it is possible to store the light energy into the solar cell and use it efficiently and convieniently like a battery whenever we want. However this is only possible in specific type of materials, thickness, number of layers and incidence angle that the light comes through so there are still much progress to be made. The below diagram shows the structure of a hyperbolic meta material, which is formed of alternating layers of metal and dielectric. When the light goes through at particular angle, with particular type of material used to make the meta material, light can be stored in it. (light flows through)
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Irene Jeong's signature project:Conducting various experiments using school's solar panel to find out the optimum environment for maximum efficiency of photovoltaic cells Archives
May 2017
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