Researchers receive $2.4 million ARPA-E grant to improve solar cell efficiency
Wednesday, January 2, 2013 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org)—Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) to study the feasibility of using a new technique to capture more energy from sunlight. The grant is based on work described by Caltech's Harry Atwater and Albert Polman in a paper they've had published in the journal Nature Materials.