Technology used by scientists to unboil an egg is being adapted to precisely cut through carbon nanotubes used in solar panel manufacturing and cancer treatment.
Nanomaterials
Mar 11, 2016
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The sheet of paper taped to the door of Keith Emery's office tells the story. On the paper is a simple fever chart showing the improvements made in increasing the efficiency of two dozen types of solar cells. Some of the ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 8, 2016
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Researchers at MANA have developed a single-seed silicon cast method. Compared with conventional casting, the new method enables dramatic improvements in the crystalline quality of the silicon that are expected to improve ...
Condensed Matter
Feb 4, 2016
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A joint research team in Japan has developed a "single-seed cast method," a new casting method making it possible to grow high-quality mono silicon at low cost. New casting method may facilitate the return of a market-competitive ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 14, 2016
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The details of how charge carriers form within a solar cell and then generate an electric current have remained unclear. A breakthrough by a trio of researchers at the University of Tsukuba (Ibaraki, Japan), as reported in ...
Materials Science
Jan 13, 2016
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(Phys.org)—Dissipation and decoherence are typically considered harmful to solar cell efficiency, but in a new paper scientists have shown that these effects paradoxically make the exciton lifetime in semiconducting carbon ...
A NIMS research team led by Liyuan Han, director of the Photovoltaic Materials Unit, has developed the world's first method to fabricate high-quality perovskite materials capable of utilizing long-wavelength sunlight of 800 ...
Materials Science
Nov 2, 2015
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UCLA professor Yang Yang, member of the California NanoSystems Institute, is a world-renowned innovator of solar cell technology whose team in recent years has developed next-generation solar cells constructed of perovskite, ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 19, 2015
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Perovskite solar cells are cheaper to make than traditional silicon cells and their electricity conversion efficiency is improving rapidly. To be commercially viable, perovskite cells need to scale up from lab size. Researchers ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 5, 2015
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CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenide) solar cells are compound thin-film solar cells and the most established alternative to silicon solar cells. Solar conversion efficiencies of over 20% have recently been achieved in CIGS ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 28, 2015
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