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Researchers Invent More Efficient Solar Cells
By achieving a power conversion efficiency of 9.5%, the new design boasts a superior performance compared with its silicon counterparts, such as solar cells that incorporate nanowires, nanotubes, and other optically active nanostructures. The best of these designs has an efficiency of a little more than 5%.
The researchers of the new study, Kui-Qing Peng of Beijing Normal University, Shuit-Tong Lee of the City University of Hong Kong, and their coworkers, have published their results in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
One Comment on "Researchers Invent More Efficient Solar Cells"
SilentRunning on Thu, 20th May 2010 6:14 pm
9.5%? Nanosolar has made panels that top 15% – and regular monocrystalline cells can top 20%.
Research is good, but please let us know when they actually achieve better than what the industry is actually producing today.