The traditional photovoltaic cells have lower efficiency because they are not able to harvest the infrared part of solar energy. The scientists are trying to incorporate the plasmoelectric effect in modern solar cells with high effectiveness. Plasmoelectric effect is used by creating nanoplasmons on metalic surface. The nanoplasmons can use the plasmon resonance to produce electricity. The experiments have already been made where nanoplasmons successfully created electric potential. The main idea is to combine the plasmoelectric solar cells with photovoltaic solar cells and harvest both visible and infrared part of solar spectrum. This way it will be possible to drastically increase performance of traditional silicon based solar panels.
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