Solar energy is one of the most important forms of renewable energy in the world, since the use of panels that take advantage of the sunlight to create energy uses an unlimited source and does not pollute the environment.
There are many areas around the world full of these photovoltaic panels that are responsible for supplying electricity to entire populations. However, it has been discovered that applying a new technique could create solar panels up to 1000 times more powerful than those we know today.
The importance of renewable energy
The University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany believes it has found the key when it comes to getting better performance from solar panels. You just have to create thinner layers with the materials from which they are made.
According to the researchers, alternating small layers of different elements could greatly increase all the electrical power that solar panels usually give.
All solar panels today are made from silicon, a material that is very cheap and works well. However, the researchers wanted to go a step further and wanted to experiment with more materials to see if they would get better results.
Many materials were tested and gave poor performance. But still, after many tests and experiments it was possible to obtain a great performance of the solar panels after combining different materials in extremely thin layers.
After many tests, a solar panel was created made of more than 475 very thin layers different from a thickness imperceptible to the human eye.
Up to 1000 times more powerful
Therefore, the key was in the increase of power based on the different layers that the solar panels had. Once all of them were structured, it was possible to create an energy source 1000 times more powerful than any other solar panel created in previous years.
Electrons were found to be able to travel much faster with this new panel structure.
Tests have continued for several months and the result has been that this new power obtained from the solar panels has been constant during practically all that time, which means that this new structure to give energy could also be used in other electronic devices such as for example computers.
This represents a revolution in the world of renewable energies , since enormous amounts of energy could be created to supply light to entire populations using as a base what we know today about solar panels, but applying this new technique.