insect Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:18:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Moth Eyes Inspiration For New Generation Solar Cells https://www.greenoptimistic.com/moth-eyes-inspiration-for-new-generation-solar-cells-20080226/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/moth-eyes-inspiration-for-new-generation-solar-cells-20080226/#respond Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:18:48 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/index.php/2008/02/26/moth-eyes-inspiration-for-new-generation-solar-cells/ Most moth eyes are made up of adjacent hexagonal sectors. Each sector is filled with thousands of orderly rows of miniscule bumps, or nipple-like protrusions. Though formed so perfectly they appear almost manufactured, each protrusion measures less than 300 nanometers, or 300 billionths of a meter – a size that renders them invisible to all […]

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