high absorption solar cell Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:02:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 CalTech Researchers Creating Near-Perfect Silicon Nanowire Solar Cell https://www.greenoptimistic.com/caltech-silicon-nanowire-solar-cell-20100316/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/caltech-silicon-nanowire-solar-cell-20100316/#respond Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:02:34 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7014 A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology have invented a new type of solar cell whose active ingredients are nanometer-sized silicon wires. The solar cell they prototyped thus uses only a small fraction of the silicon used to make conventional solar cell, the rest being made of a polymer.

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