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‘Swiss Cheese’ Design Enables Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells with Potential for Higher Efficiencies
A bold new design for thin film solar cells that requires significantly less silicon – and may boost their efficiency – is the result of an industry/academia collaboration between Oerlikon Solar in Switzerland and the Institute of Physics’ photovoltaic...Solar Power Without Solar Cells: A Hidden Magnetic Effect of Light Could Make It Possible
A dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional semiconductor-based solar cells. The researchers found a way to make an “optical battery,” said...
Smaller Particles Could Lead to More Efficient Solar Panels
Studies done by Mark Lusk and colleagues at the Colorado School of Mines could significantly improve the efficiency of solar cells. Their latest work describes how the size of light-absorbing particles–quantum dots–affects the particles’...
Neutron Analysis Yields Insight Into Bacteria for Solar Energy
Structural studies of some of nature’s most efficient light-harvesting systems are lighting the way for new generations of biologically inspired solar cell devices. Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and the Department of Energy’s...Rutgers Discovery Paves Way for Development of Efficient, Inexpensive Plastic Solar Cells
Rutgers physicists have discovered new properties in a material that could result in efficient and inexpensive plastic solar cells. The discovery, posted online by the journal Nature Materials, reveals that excitons, or energy-carrying particles generated...
Thirteen Businesses Win Funding From the UK Technology Strategy Board
Thirteen businesses have been successful in winning the funding via two competitions run by the Technology Strategy Board. The aim is to help to cement the United Kingdom (UK) as a world leader in this emerging field. The investment will fund research...
