IBM’s focus on using technology for photovoltaic power generation from the area of one square centimeters of the solar panel from 230 W of energy. The energy is then converted to 70 W of available electricity, the company claims, which is so far achieved the best effect. IBM’s research staff in the chip and between the cooling block on a very thin, and indium gallium compounds made of liquid metal layer. This is called thermal interface to the metal layer from the solar panels convert the heat to the cooling block to maintain the chip really low temperature. They hinted that if silicon can be effective in cooling, concentrator photovoltaic power generation devices can replace the traditional devices become the most expensive solar power installations. However, IBM Corporation recognized the need to research projects from the laboratory to large-scale production of much remains to be done. The researchers said that the focus for the acquisition from the sun’s rays power increased by 10 times, so that the general power to 20 W of the battery can be issued 200 W of power.

The initial results of their study in this week’s session of the 33rd IEEE Photovoltaic professional seminar has been proposed, the researchers note at the meeting with other existing methods, the liquid metal cooling them how to interface from Solar heat more effectively transformed to copper cooling board.

The researchers used as the semiconductor industry research and development of methods, the solar cell business with IBM’s hot liquid metal cooling systems combine to achieve developed a “breakthrough” of the system.

IBM added that based on the concentration of light
V technologies have the potential for large-scale power generation to provide the minimum cost of solar electricity, “If solar cells to keep the temperature low, and to develop a cheap and efficient, in a very high concentration of light on the optical devices so.”

IBM has no plans to manufacture its own solar cells, but hope that solar energy equipment manufacturers to license the technology and the possible use of the lens technology. The company is also developing nano-structure, which, including nanotubes and semiconductor quantum dots, to more effectively create photovoltaic cells.

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