caltech flexible solar cell Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:07:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Flexible Silicon Solar Cells Use 99 % Less Material With Same Efficiency https://www.greenoptimistic.com/flexible-silicon-solar-cells-material-efficiency-20100215/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/flexible-silicon-solar-cells-material-efficiency-20100215/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:07:13 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=6627 CalTech researchers discovered a new way to make silicon solar cells that not only use 1 percent of the material needed to make conventional cells, but which are also thin and flexible, making them suitable for a much larger palette of uses in all kinds of applications. And let's not mention the fact that the price will be considerably lower, respectively.

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