| With the renewed emphasis on renewable energy, | | | | converted without excessive heat production. This |
| new technologies are emerging. Holographic tuning is | | | | allows the cells to make the maximum amount of |
| one such technology and could revolutionize solar | | | | energy while maintaining a very small size. |
| cells. | | | | Current silicon cell technology is restricted to only a |
| Holographic Tuning | | | | few spectrums and is highly inefficient as it fails to |
| Traditional solar panel systems are not particularly | | | | covert up to 85 percent of the sunlight into power. |
| efficient and can be more than a bit of an eyesore. | | | | To make things even better, the process is being |
| Since the panel systems only convert a small amount | | | | designed to "tune" the solar light onto both sides of |
| of the sunlight that hits them, there really isn't any | | | | each cell, thus doubling the energy output. |
| alternative to placing the bulky beasts on your roof. | | | | The primary advantage of holographic tuning is it will |
| Or is there? | | | | revolutionize the solar panel as we know it. Instead |
| Holographic tuning, also known as Holographic Planar | | | | of large, bulky panels that aren't particularly |
| Concentrator, is a new technology with one goal in | | | | attractive, holographic tuning panels will look similar to |
| mind - cheaper and small solar cell collectors. The | | | | regular bedroom windows, but with five or six |
| technology is based on a unique theory in which solar | | | | horizontal rows of black rectangles, the cells. The |
| cells are holographically tuned to attract and focus | | | | prototypes are actually very striking and are a major |
| different spectrums of sunlight on solar cells. The cells | | | | improvement over current solar panel systems. |
| are tuned to attract certain spectrums that can be | | | | |