Method to increase electrical production of solar cells, solar cell panels, and solar cell modules
AssigneeSolar Flare Power Corporation
InventorsB. Ryland WIGGS, David R. WIGGS
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Abstract
An improved method of at least one of providing increased solar cell/solar panel/solar module (a solar member) electrical production abilities and of providing some increased solar member cooling abilities by at least one of applying/providing a coating, as disclosed herein, directly to and/or within the back-sheet of, a solar member, which coating can one of modify, reflect, and scatter light-waves in a manner advantageous for solar members to produce more electricity than otherwise, and which coating can optionally be applied to the front of a separate surface which is within six meters of a solar member.
Claims23
A method of increasing electrical output of a solar member, the solar member comprising a solar cell, or a solar panel, or a solar module, the method comprising:
- disposing a coating on one at least one of the back-side and the back-sheet of a solar member, and/or on a surface of a substrate positioned behind, below and/or near the solar member, wherein optionally the surface of the substrate is reflective,
- wherein the coating comprises:
- a first component comprising:
- at least one of, in crushed and/or powdered form:
- obsidian, salt, sea salt, silicon dioxide, limestone, sandstone, granite, cement, quartz, white quartz, light colored sand, a prism material, diamond, phosphor, down-conversion crystals, up-conversion crystals, tin oxide, and glass;
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- optionally, no more than ten percent of Silicon Carbide;
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- optionally, a second component mixed with the first component to form a paste, the second component comprising at least one of a liquid and a wet/moist glue;
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- optionally disposing a reflective material on the solar member and/or on the surface of the substrate, wherein when the reflective material is disposed on the solar member, the coating is disposed between (a) a back side or a back-sheet of the solar member and (b) the reflective material, and wherein, when the reflective material is disposed on the surface of the substrate, the reflective material is disposed between (c) the coating and (d) the surface of the substrate, wherein the surface is one of flat, angled, V-shaped, concave shaped, circular, semi-circular, square shaped, rounded, and dome-shaped, wherein, when the surface of the substrate is positioned behind the solar member, there is an air gap distance between the surface and the solar member of at least 1.59 mm to 6 m.
A method of increasing the electrical output from a solar member, the solar member comprising a solar cell, or a solar panel, or a solar module, the method comprising:
- applying on and/or within a back-sheet material of the solar member, and/or applying on and/or within a separate surface of a substrate disposed at least one of behind, below, and near the solar member, at least one of, in crushed and/or powdered form, obsidian, salt, sea salt, silicon dioxide, limestone, sandstone, granite, cement, quartz, white quartz, light colored sand, a prism material, diamond, phosphor, down-conversion crystals, up-conversion crystals, tin oxide and glass;
- optionally disposing a reflective material on the solar member and/or on the surface of the substrate, wherein when the reflective material is disposed on the solar member, the coating is disposed between (a) a back side or a back-sheet of the solar member and (b) the reflective material, and wherein, when the reflective material is disposed on the surface of the substrate, the reflective material is disposed between (c) the coating and (d) the surface of the substrate, wherein the surface is one of flat, angled, V-shaped, concave shaped, circular, semi-circular, square shaped, rounded, and dome-shaped,
- wherein optionally the surface of the substrate is reflective.
A method of cooling a solar member, the solar member comprising a solar cell, or a solar panel, or a solar module, the method comprising:
- applying an evaporative cooling material to at least one of the back-side and the back-sheet of a solar member and to the exterior back side of a solar member on which a coating is disposed,
- wherein the evaporative cooling material comprises a thermo-responsive water absorption and/or water adsorption and water desorption material, that absorbs/adsorbs rain and/or fog and/or water mist and/or water vapor and/or any form of water from the air when the temperature of the evaporative cooling material is twenty-five degrees Celsius (C), or less, and that desorbs and/or evaporates water into the air when the temperature of the evaporative cooling material is above twenty-five degrees Celsius and less than sixty degrees Celsius.
A method of cooling a solar member, the solar member comprising a solar cell, or a solar panel, or a solar module, the method comprising:
- applying a coating to the back-side and/or to the back-sheet of a solar member or to a surface of a substrate disposed behind, below and/or near the solar member, wherein the coating is adapted to release heat radiation in wavelengths of six to fifteen micrometers.
A method of increasing the electrical output of a solar member, the solar member comprising a solar cell, or a solar panel, or a solar module, the method comprising:
- applying at least one of a solar energy and/or light energy and/or electron energy down-conversion and/or up-conversion and/or scattering coating to and/or within at least one of (a) a back of a solar member;
- and/or (b) to and/or within a surface of a substrate that is positioned 1.59 mm to six meters of the solar member,
- wherein the coating adapted to reflect at least one of solar energy, photons, artificial light, and electrons at energy levels that enables electrons to be transitioned into the conduction band of solar members,
- wherein the coating adapted to reflect, elastically and/or inelastically, at least one of solar energy, photons, artificial light, and electrons into any other solar member disposed within at least a six-meter radius, and
- optionally, applying the coating to and/or on and/or within at least one of a pavement, the ground, and a rooftop below a solar field/array.
A method to increase the electrical output of a solar member, the solar member comprising a solar cell, or a solar panel, or a solar module, the method comprising:
- applying a coating and/or material to the back of a solar member, and/or on a surface of a substrate disposed near the solar member, wherein coating and/or material is adapted to provide at least one of additional photons and/or electrons traveling into the solar member by at least one of modification and/or reflection and/or scattering from at least one of (a) a Bremsstrahlung Radiation effect and/or (b) a Raman scattering, (c) a Stokes Raman scattering, (d) an anti-Stokes Raman scattering, (e) a Compton scattering, (f) a Thompson scattering, (g) a Brillouin scattering, (h) Debye or Mie Scattering, and (i) Rayleigh scattering.
A method of increasing the electrical output of a plurality of solar members, the solar member comprising a solar cell, or a solar panel, or a solar module, the method comprising:
- applying a coating to at least some of the plurality of solar members in a staggered manner throughout a solar field that comprises the solar members or throughout an array that comprises the solar members;
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- applying the coating to at least one of every other solar member within a row of solar members;
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- applying the coating to at least every third solar member within a row of solar members;
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- applying the coating to alternating rows of solar members, wherein every other solar member is coated and where every third solar member is coated;
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- wherein there is at least one coated solar member within at least a six-meter radius of any uncoated solar members within a solar field/array.
A method of increasing the electrical output of a bifacial solar cell module that comprises first and second sets of solar cells, the method comprising disposing a coating between the two respective first and second sets of solar cells of the bifacial solar module, which first set of solar cells comprise a front part of the coated bifacial solar module, wherein the first set of solar cells face in a first direction toward the sun, and wherein the second set of solar cells comprise a back part of the coated bifacial solar module, wherein the second set of solar cells face in a second direction different than the first direction,
- wherein the coating comprises:
- a first component comprising:
- at least one of, in crushed and/or powdered form:
- obsidian, salt, sea salt, silicon dioxide, limestone, sandstone, granite, cement, quartz, white quartz, light colored sand, a prism material, diamond, phosphor, down-conversion crystals, up-conversion crystals, tin oxide, and glass;
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- optionally, no more than ten percent of Silicon Carbide;
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- optionally, a second component mixed with the first component to form a paste, the second component comprising at least one of a liquid and a wet/moist glue.
A method of increasing electrical output of a solar member, the solar member comprising a solar cell, or a solar panel, or a solar module, the method comprising applying a coating to the solar member, the coating adapted to increase an electrical output to the solar irradiance ratio as solar irradiance levels decrease.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.