Week 11

The Development of Vapor Deposition Precursors For Earth Abundant, Inexpensive Photovoltaics

Submitted by amaster on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 20:52

This week in Seminar in Chemistry the guest lecturer was Dr. Adam S. Hock, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His talk was entitled "The Development of Vapor Deposition Precursors For Earth Abundant, Inexpensive Photovoltaics" and was about his research into new ways to increase efficiency in solar cells while decreasing cost of production. This week's talk was slightly interesting in that it had to do with new technologies, but I was slightly turned off to the presentation because of the speaker's politics in the presentation.

Vapor deposition and inexpensive photovoltaics.

Submitted by sam.uelkang on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 10:29

This week’s Seminar in Chemistry was presented to us by Dr. Adam Hock. His presentation, “The Development Vapor Deposition Precursors for Earth Abundant, Inexpensive Photovoltaics,” is about his research in solar cells and its potential to alleviate our energy crisis. We receive 4.3*1020 J/hour from the sun. The problem is that all this energy is disperse and the conversion of photon energy and transmission is a challenge.

Converting Sunshine Into Energy

Submitted by tcourtne on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 10:22

On Thursday, March 24, Adam S. Hock spoke about “The Development of Vapor Deposition Precursors for Earth Abundant, Inexpensive Photovoltaics”. Dr. Hock graduated from MIT with his PhD and did a postdoc at Harvard.

Designing better Solar Panels

Submitted by A. Shull on Sun, 03/27/2011 - 07:30

Solar Cells Made of Sn

Submitted by ckrym on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 13:29

Solar energy is a renewable source of energy that has been available for many decades. Researchers are trying to find an efficient, and cost effective new type of solar cell. Dr. Adam S. Hock from the Illinois Institute of Technology and also Argonne National Laboratory came to present at Andrews University on Thursday March 24, 2011. His presentation was entitled “The development of vapor deposition precursors for earth abundant, inexpensive photovoltaics”.

The Development of Vapor Deposition Precursors for Earth Abundant, Inexpensive Photovoltaics

Submitted by andyy955 on Fri, 03/25/2011 - 13:07

This week's Chemistry seminar presentation was given by Dr. Adam S. Hock. Dr. Hock has just began to set up his lab, and presented on "the developement of Vapor Deposition Precursors for Earth Abudnant, Inexpensive Photovoltaics." He began by talking about the energy crisis and the potential of harvesting solar energy. Solar energy is available in enormous ammonts, up to 4.3 X 10^20 J/hour. This is enough to supply the whole world with energy for a whole year. Currently, there is a lot of demand, yet the conversion of photon energy is still very challenging.

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