Mit Solar Panel As Thin As Bubble

Researchers at mit have created prototype solar cells so light and so thin that they can be balanced on the surface of a soap bubble without breaking it joel jean and anna osherov view 1 images.

Mit solar panel as thin as bubble.

They ve created a solar cell so light it can literally sit atop a soap bubble without bursting it. It s so damn thin. The mit team has achieved the thinnest and lightest complete solar cells ever made they say. The solar panel as light as a soap bubble.

To demonstrate just how thin and lightweight the cells are the researchers draped a working cell on top of a soap bubble without popping the bubble. Joel jean and anna osherov. Mit researchers created solar cells that are so thin and light that they can be draped on top of a soap bubble without popping the bubble. Mit news joel jean and anna osherov scientists have made a solar cell that s so thin and light it can happily rest on a soap bubble without popping it.

Measuring just two micrometers thick the. It s only 2 3 microns thick or 1 30th to 1 50th the thickness of a human hair. June javelosa april 9th 2016. Try doing that with the one fitted to the.

Mit creates super thin solar cells as thin as a soap bubble mit managed to develop a new approach for making solar cells that makes it impressively light and thin. Now imagine something only one fiftieth as wide that s how thin this solar cell is. A new invention from mit it s the thinnest lightest solar cell ever been produced. Researchers at mit have created solar cells that are so thin and lightweight that placing them on top of a soap bubble does not pop the bubble.