ALUMALOID SOLAR FILM
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January 6, 1992
ALUMALOID SOLAR FILM
At last! A new development in solar cell technology! A 72% efficient
film you can stick on your window and have solar electricity. Or,
buy window panes with the material etched on! For Cheap! It will
cost pennies per watt. resent solar technology will produce no more
than 15% efficiency.
Dr. Alvin Marks, who used to work for Polaroid Land, who holds at
least 117 patents, has some experience with photons. His background
knowledge is in polarizing films. He has created a solar cell using
quantum mechanics to collect the energy of a photon at a specific
frequency. It is patterned after the photosynthesis process of
plants.
He uses a three dimensional thin-film array by which the photon
gives up it's energy as it passes a sort of micro-rectifier-antenna,
called a Rectenna.
Two layers of these antennas are etched onto a thin approximately
one micron-thick conductive polymer film. As the light photon passes
the first layer, it gives up 40% of it's energy as electricity, and
at the second layer gives 32% more, totalling 72%! These principles
have been well known for some time but haven't to date been used for
converting light to electric power.
This technology has been patterned after the photosynthetic cell
that has been developed by the French. It is tuned to the angstrom
length of light that contains the most recoverable energy.
He first developed the technology in the form of a thin film of
plastic, but now has also developed an electron beam-writer that
will etch the circuits on glass. These are actually circuits that
tune into the frequency of the light, and convert it to electricity.
One hundred square miles of this glass would produce enough
electricity to power the entire country!
His company is called Photo-Therm, reportedly he is selling stock.
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He can be reached at:
Dr. Alvin Marks
Photo-Therm
359 Main st.
Athol, Massachusetts, 01331.
They/he are in the phone book also.
Write there for more information and an informative tape.
He got his first $300,000 funding from private colleges back east,
but he left it open, (hasn't sold out) because he doesn't want it to
be bought up by big industry. He is looking for more money. He needs
$875,000 to do his basic research.
Patent # is 4,445,050. April 24, 1984. Device for conversion of
light power to electrical power.
PhotoTherm has signed accords with China, to make Solar Cooking
Devices.
At date of this file, he has projected about 7 months till the
poduction prototype is set up, and then another 8 months to do
production. He is a production expert, this is what he did with
Polaroid. Barring obstruction, we are probably about a year away
from pennies-per-watt Rectenna solar film or panes.
Source: Survivor Club BBS 213-663-1301
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