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  Nanowires Fuel Breakthrough for Solar Energy

  January 18, 2013 — Nanowires could pave the way for more efficient and cheaper solar cells. Research on solar cell nanowires is on the rise globally. Until now the unattained dream figure was ten per cent efficiency -- ... > full story
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  Thin Film Solar Cells: New World Record for Solar Cell Efficiency

  January 18, 2013 — In a remarkable feat, scientists have developed thin film solar cells on flexible polymer foils with a new record efficiency of 20.4% for converting sunlight into electricity. The cells are based on ... > full story
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  Black Silicon Can Take Efficiency of Solar Cells to New Levels

  January 18, 2013 — Scientists have demonstrated results that show a huge improvement in the light absorption and the surface passivation on silicon nanostructures. This has been achieved by applying atomic layer ... > full story
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  Photovoltaics Beat Biofuels at Converting Sun's Energy to Miles Driven

  January 17, 2013 — In 2005, President George W. Bush and American corn farmers saw corn ethanol as a promising fossil fuel substitute that would reduce both American dependence on foreign oil and greenhouse gas ... > full story
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  Photovoltaic Cell Manufacture: Device Tosses out Unusable PV Wafers

  January 15, 2013 — Silicon wafers destined to become photovoltaic cells can take a bruising through assembly lines, as they are oxidized, annealed, purified, diffused, etched, and layered to reach their destinies as ... > full story
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  New Sunspots Producing Space Weather

  January 14, 2013 — On Jan. 13, 2013, at 2:24 a.m. EST, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME. Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar phenomenon that can send solar ... > full story
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  Multi-Junction Solar Cell to Break Efficiency Barrier?

  January 14, 2013 — A novel, realistically achievable, lattice-matched multi-junction solar cell design has the potential to break the 50 percent power conversion ... > full story
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  Cluster Mission Indicates Turbulent Eddies May Warm the Solar Wind

  January 8, 2013 — The sun ejects a continuous flow of electrically charged particles and magnetic fields in the form of the solar wind -- and this wind is hotter than it should be. A new study of data obtained by ... > full story
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  Concentrated Solar Power With Thermal Energy Storage Can Help Utilities' Bottom Line, Study Shows

  January 8, 2013 — The storage capacity of concentrating solar power can add significant value to a utility company's optimal mix of energy sources, a new report by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable ... > full story
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  New Path to More Efficient Organic Solar Cells Uncovered

  January 7, 2013 — Working at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, an international team of scientists found that for highly efficient polymer/organic solar cells, size matters. Impure domains if made sufficiently ... > full story

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