Researchers demonstrate how sunlight generates electrical charge within cutting-edge solar cell film
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 09:02
in Physics & Chemistry
The details of how charge carriers form within a solar cell and then generate an electric current have remained unclear. A breakthrough by a trio of researchers at the University of Tsukuba (Ibaraki, Japan), as reported in Applied Physics Express, helps clarify this. The group's study has provided detailed insight into how energy in the form of sunlight is absorbed by a layer of state-of-the-art material used in solar cells, and then converted into a form usable for generating electricity.