My colleagues are building a self cleaning solar panel using Electrostatic waves but we are stuck on how to actually calculate the voltage needed to generate those waves and what equations we should use in order to calculate everything else
I think its hard to really understand this question. I know that one can do some kind of dust cleaning (with rather moderate efficiency) by using very high electrostatic potentials. Electrostatic waves in this context? Do you have any reference?
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