infrared harvesting Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:44:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Colloidal Quantum Dots Solar Cells Gather Visible and Infrared Light https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cqd-solar-cells-20110627/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/cqd-solar-cells-20110627/#respond Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:44:33 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=19262 A solar cell developed at the Unversity of Toronto, Canada, is able to harvest both visible and infrared light and can theoretically achieve efficiencies of up to 42 percent. Their tandem solar cell is based on colloidal quantum dots (CQD), and the team has been led by Professor Ted Sargent, a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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