Many types of water ice can have semiconducting properties, particularly when doped, due to their crystalline structure. These properties may possibly lend the material to being used to create photovoltaic cells on distant planetary bodies. A band gap of 7.8 eV for cubic ice and 5.15 eV for ice XI give a solar spectral radiance of 1.51x10-11 W sr-1 m-2 Hz-1 and 9.45x10-10 W sr-1 m-2 Hz-1 respectively. This gives a very low amount of useful radiation at Europa and an even smaller amount 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, bringing extreme doubt on the use of this novel method
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Amongst all energy resources, solar energy is the most abundant one and compared to the rate at whic...
Icy surfaces behave differently to rocky or regolith‐covered surfaces in response to irradiation. A ...
Perovskites have emerged as promising light harvesters in photovoltaics. The resulting solar cells (...
This paper looks at how the recently discovered water-ice on the Moon could be employed for use in a...
The penetration depth of broad spectrum solar radiation (300 nm – 1100 nm) in ices relevant to Mars ...
Solid water (H_2O) ice is found in high abundances in a large variety of astrophys. environments: e....
Jupiter’s satellite Europa, whose surface is composed of ice with a possible water ocean beneath, co...
The intensity of solar radiation in the Earth's direction from the Sun is approximately 1.361 kW/m2,...
Electrochemical cells from ice will be an important seasonal addition to power generation in cold re...
This paper discusses the implication of the LCROSS mission finding water-ice in a permanently shadow...
The paper presents the available experimental data on ice 0 and the assumed objects of the cryospher...
This week’s activity is going to investigate the effects of color and collection area on the amount ...
As human beings mostly depend on fossil fuels for all of their daily energy usages. But due to the e...
The use of thin film solar cells for power generation when colonizing space stations is an interesti...
The vast majority of space probes to date have relied upon photovoltaic power generation. If future ...
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Icy surfaces behave differently to rocky or regolith‐covered surfaces in response to irradiation. A ...
Perovskites have emerged as promising light harvesters in photovoltaics. The resulting solar cells (...