Researchers create highly absorbing, flexible solar cells with silicon wire arrays
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Using arrays of long, thin silicon wires embedded in a polymer substrate, a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a new type of flexible solar cell that enhances the absorption of sunlight and efficiently converts its photons into electrons. The solar cell does all this using only a fraction of the expensive semiconductor materials required by conventional solar cells...