More Efficient Solar Cell

[Doug Pensinger]

In this months issue, Scientific American honored the National Energy Resources Laboratory and Spectrolab " for constructing the most efficient land-based solar cell. ...the cells converted 34% of the energy in sunlight to electricity beating the previous record by about 2%. Equally important, Spectrolab used standard production equipment to manufacture the cells and built them on a low cost base of germanium; they are more than 40% more efficient than other mass produced cells."


An on line article is at http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2002/q2/nr_020521s.html

Maybe the future of solar cells _isn't_ that distant, eh?

Doug


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