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House windows that double as solar panels? Shiny quantum dots brighten future solar cells
2014-04-15 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A house window that doubles as a solar panel could be on the horizon, thanks to recent quantum-dot work by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers in collaboration with scientists from University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), Italy. Their project demonstrates that superior light-emitting properties of quantum dots can be applied in solar energy by helping more efficiently harvest sunlight. "The key accomplishment is the demonstration of large-area luminescent solar concentrators that use a new...
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