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Highly Efficient Solar Cells Could Result from Quantum Dot Research

Submitted by Stefan Wray on Sun, 06/20/2010 - 11:00pm
Publication Date: 
Mon, 21 Jun 2010 04:00:00 GMT
Time Stamp: 
1277092800
Original URL: 
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2010/06/highly-efficient-solar-cells-could-result-from-quantum-dot-research?cmpid=rss

Conventional solar cell efficiency could be increased from the current limit of 30 percent to more than 60 percent, suggests new research on semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The University of Texas at Austin.