News From the Field Boosting the Power of Solar Cells
November 26, 2008
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New ways of squeezing out greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted by a team of physicists and engineers at MIT. Using computer modeling and a variety of advanced chip-manufacturing techniques, they have boosted the cells' output by as much as 50 percent.
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