100th blog post
Posted: Thursday, 4th October, 2012 Filed under: Events, Third generation | Tags: video 1 Comment »
The CSIRO Solar blog has made it to 100 posts, and we’ve celebrated it by doing what we do best: harvesting power from the sun.
Photovoltaics research scientist Greg Wilson fabricated this dye sensitised solar cell in CSIRO’s Newcastle lab and I think you’ll agree it’s a pretty great way to commemorate our achievement and show off the technology at the same time.
Click through the pictures below for more details of the fabrication process.
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- Cutting the glass
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- Immersion in dye bath
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- The dyed active surface
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- An inverted preview
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- Firing the counter electrode
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- Creating the activated platinum surface
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- The cell, ready to be sealed
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- Capillary filling with electrolyte
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- Sealing the exterior fill hole
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- Soldering the busbars
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- External electrical connections
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- Framing the device
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- The completed device
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- Revealing the transparent message
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- The cell even works on a wet cloudy day!
We plan to show you this process in more detail in future posts of the blog.
We’ll also be posting ’100 facts about solar at CSIRO’ over these next few weeks, so keep an eye out for them.
Reblogged this on News @ CSIRO and commented:
A congrats to our friends over at Solar @ CSIRO for writing 100 posts! Great video of the solar cell being made. Nifty Christmas gift perhaps?