'Swiss cheese' design enables thin film silicon solar cells with potential for higher efficiencies

Friday, May 6, 2011 - 15:31 in Physics & Chemistry

A bold new design for thin film solar cells that requires significantly less silicon – and may boost their efficiency – is the result of an industry/academia collaboration between Oerlikon Solar in Switzerland and the Institute of Physics' photovoltaic group at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

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