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Nanowires fuel breakthrough for solar energy
2013-01-18 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: "Our findings are the first to show that it really is possible to use nanowires to manufacture solar cells," says Magnus Borgström, a researcher in semiconductor physics and the principal author. Research on solar cell nanowires is on the rise globally. Until now the unattained dream figure was ten per cent efficiency -- but now Dr Borgström and his colleagues are able to report an efficiency of 13.8 per cent. The nanowires are made of the semiconductor material indium phosphide and work like...
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