Homemade solar cells (Screen printing)

[Mike Gibson]

I found this on the otherpower forum I got it to down load. What i am asking is in anyone knows of these chemicals and if they would make any power once made. The chemicals arn't that expencive but i would not like to waste my time or money on some thing does not work.

http://www.otherpower.com/images/scimages/5708/solarcellplans.pdf

[Rob Beckers]

Hi Mike,

This sounds intriguing! Unfortunately my Acrobat Reader crashes every single time when I try to view that PDF you link to. What chemicals do they use? What's the efficiency of these cells? Last but not least, how stable are they? Meaning that if the light sensitive compound breaks down quickly it won't be very useful.

-Rob-

[Mike Gibson]

The compounds are as follows Cadmium Sulphide, Cadmium Chloride, Propylene Glycol and Tellurium. As for the efficience and stadilty i have know idea. I am trying to get ahold of the High Scool science teacher to see if she knows any thing about these compounds. The link is very hard to download i had to try several times to get it to work. If you like i can Email the book to you.

[Joe Blake]

Hi Mike,

This sounds intriguing! Unfortunately my Acrobat Reader crashes every single time when I try to view that PDF you link to.

-Rob-

I've been having similar problems. I got round it by downloading the document to my hard drive and then opening Acrobat Reader that way.

Joe

[Rob Beckers]

Thanks Joe!
That did indeed solve the Acrobat crashes.

Looks like it's not quite a step-by-step manual for cells, there's still quite a bit "left as an exercise to the reader" to figure out. Could be fun to try some of the recipes though! (Just be aware that some of the listed chemicals are rather toxic/nasty!)

The Japanese patent that is referred to can be accessed and downloaded directly from (amongst others) Google: http://www.google.com/patents?id=6SYeAAAAEBAJ&dq=5538903. That will give you a somewhat less annotated copy than the one in the article.

-Rob-

[Patrick Trogothzon]

I found this on the otherpower forum I got it to down load.

http://www.otherpower.com/images/scimages/5708/solarcellplans.pdf

Hi!

That link appears to be broken... :(

If anyone finds a good link, SHOUT!:D

/P

[Makinde Moses]

The compounds are as follows Cadmium Sulphide, Cadmium Chloride, Propylene Glycol and Tellurium. As for the efficience and stadilty i have know idea. I am trying to get ahold of the High Scool science teacher to see if she knows any thing about these compounds. The link is very hard to download i had to try several times to get it to work. If you like i can Email the book to you.
Please I am Makinde Moses, I will like you to Please e-mail the e-book to me

[Rob Beckers]

Makinde, you may want to send a PM (=Private Message) to Mike. I'm not sure how often he checks back at the forum, so he may otherwise not see your request.

To send a PM, go to one of his posts, right click on his name (on the left side, in blue) and a menu will pop up. One of the options in that menu is to send a PM. The majority of members have their options set in such a way that a PM will trigger an E-mail to them, so they get notified even if they don't check back at the forum regularly.

-RoB-