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Centre of Excellence for Artificial Photosynthesi, International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), Balapur Post, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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• Research Article   
  Semiconductor and Liquid Assisted Photo Thermal Effect: A New Method to Generate Electricity from Sunlight
  Author(s): Ibram Ganesh*
  
  The Semiconductor and Liquid Assisted Photothermal Effect (SLAPE) concept was employed for the first time in this study to generate electricity from sunlight. In SLAPE process, a semiconducting material is immersed completely in a stable organic solvent to capture the sunlight reaching the earth surface completely and to turn it into the heat-energy, which can be eventually converted into electricity with the help of a heat engine and electric generator. The SLAPE solar panels were fabricated with top and bottom chambers separated by a thin thermally conducting metal sheet (Cu or Al). Upon exposure of a one square meter area SLAPE solar panel containing 21 numbers of silicon photovoltaic cells together with 2 litres γ-butyrolactone to the sunlight for about 2 hours generated about 17 V electricity with the help of a laboratory model reciprocally moved steam .. View More»
  

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