Cadmium telluride photovoltaics Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 02 May 2011 14:31:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 3D Nanocone Solar Cells Improve Efficiency by 80% in Lab Experiments https://www.greenoptimistic.com/jun-xu-3d-nanocone-solar-cell-20110502/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/jun-xu-3d-nanocone-solar-cell-20110502/#respond Mon, 02 May 2011 14:31:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=18351 Jun Xu and his team from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have just created a three-dimensional "nanocone-based solar cell platform," which is able to increase the light conversion efficiency by almost 80 percent by eliminating the issue of poor charge transport due to bulk material defects.

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