We see very few projects where people actually create their own solar panels. And yet, that’s precisely what [Shih Wei Chieh] has done! The project consists of a large dye-sensitized solar panel.

Melt-infiltration of spiro-OMeTAD and thermal instability of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells, C.D. Bailie, E.L. Unger, S.M. Zakeeruddin, M. Grätzel, M.D ...

The basic technology behind Ambient Photonics's solar cells is so simple that it's routinely assembled as a high school science experiment. In labs across the U.S., students sandwich blackberries' ...

The basic technology behind Ambient Photonics’s solar cells is so simple that it’s routinely assembled as a high school ...

used a special dye to fabricate dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) with high open-circuit voltage and power conversion efficiency of 13.5%, which is claimed to be among the highest for this kind of ...

Now, it spits out dye-sensitized solar cells. While they do the same thing as rooftop silicon photovoltaics — convert photons into energy — these cells rely on a different process and materials.