Cheaper silicon means cheaper solar cells

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 13:01 in Physics & Chemistry

Researchers have pioneered a new approach to manufacturing solar cells that requires less silicon and can accommodate silicon with more impurities than is currently the standard. Those changes mean that solar cells can be made much more cheaply than at present.

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