New Inexpensive Solar Cell Design

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - 16:28 in Physics & Chemistry

One of the most promising technologies for making inexpensive but reasonably efficient photovoltaic cells just got much cheaper. Scientists in Canada have shown that inexpensive nickel can work just as well as gold for one of the critical electrical contacts that gather the electrical current produced by colloidal quantum dot solar cells.

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