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Imec Demonstrates Highly Efficient Bifacial Solar Cells with near 100 Bifaciality

Imec Demonstrates Highly Efficient Bifacial Solar Cells with near 100% Bifaciality

MUNICH, Germany – June 20, 2016 – Imec, the world-leading nano-electronics research center and partner in Energyville, will present at this week’s Intersolar Europe/EU PVSEC a highly efficient bifacial n-PERT (BiPERT) solar cell featuring a bifaciality value close to 100%. With a rear cell efficiency close to the efficiency measured from the front of the […]

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Quantum Dots Boost Solar Cells

Quantum Dots Boost Solar Cells

Research team showing off their quantum-dot doped nanomaterial (back to front: Chang-Yong Nam and Mircea Cotlet of Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials with Stony Brook University graduate students Prahlad Routh and Jia-Shiang Chen). (Source: Brookhaven) “Our particular 2-D material system (SnS2) [tin disulfide] is similar to Si [silicon], in that it has an indirect

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Solar Cells Made Obsolete

Solar Cells Made Obsolete

PORTLAND, Ore.–Now before you get all excited by the headline, which is not click-bait according to the researchers, a new kind of nanoscale rectenna (half antenna and half rectifier) can convert solar and infrared into electricity, plus be tuned to nearly any other frequency as a detector. The invention was made at Georgia Tech (Atlanta)

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