A team of specialist advisors, the authors of this paper, provided design advice to the architects and engineers of the EC Thermie target projects SUNH (Solar Urban Hew Housing) and SHINE (refurbished housing) during the design phase, which is still ongoing. M. Wilson is the co-ordinator of this task of advisors dealing with the ‘Specific Innovative Technologies’ (SIT) of: Daylighting (M. Wilso...

CubeSats have proven themselves as a reliable and cost-effective method to perform experiments in space, but they are highly constrained by their specifications and size. One such constraint is the average continuous power, about 5 W, which is available to the typical CubeSat. To improve this constraint, we have developed the eXtendable Solar Array System (XSAS), a deployable solar array protot...

Whereas the non-residential buildings consume a significant percentage of the total energy produced by the city, is important that these buildings have for such consumption is reduced or consumed in a conscious way. To do so, using concepts of energy efficiency, this work is to explain passive strategies with the use of flexible solar shades that help to get a favorable outcome with respect to ...

the dye-sensitized solar cells (dssc) have been regarded as one of the most promising new generation solar cells. tremendous research efforts have been invested to improve the efficiency of solar energy conversion which is generally determined by the light harvesting efficiency, electron injection efficiency and undesirable electron lifetime. in this review, various characteristics of dye-sensi...