Austin Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:47:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Quantum Dots Could Double the Efficiency of Solar Cells https://www.greenoptimistic.com/quantum-dots-solar-cells-20100621/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/quantum-dots-solar-cells-20100621/#comments Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:47:39 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=8063 A team of scientists from the University of Texas at Austin have discovered a way to double the efficiency of solar cells. The process consists in capturing more of the available energy in sunlight (including energy at the high end of the scale), using nanoscale crystals called quantum dots.

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