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MIT Researchers Develop Solar Cells 1000 More Powerful than Traditional Photovoltaics

Leigh Hutchens — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 03:22:39 +0000

According to researchers at MIT, developing solar energy technology that focuses on lightweight, thin solar cells has the potential to transform the industry. These thin solar cells can be produced by stacking sheets of single molecule-thick graphene or molybdenum disulfide. Why is this important? Because the researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to create […]

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Revolutionary Solar Cell Absorbs More Sunlight, More Efficiently

Janina Lazo-Cruz — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:10:30 +0000

Based on a computer model developed by MIT engineers, it is possible to capture a broad spectrum of sunlight using a very thin film (about 6 Angstroms) of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) that is poked with a microscopic needle at the center, creating a field of varying (non-uniform) elastic strain, and thus, varying band gap across […]

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Ultrasound Technology Used to Fabricate Future's Best Thermoelectric Materials

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:54:22 +0000

By using a technology that is normally suited to cleaning jewelery, with common solvents, ultrasounds, and 1 milligram of layered material (such as graphite), Dr. Valeria Nicolosi, the collaborator from the University of Oxford says they can make "billions and billions of one-atom-thick nanosheets can be made at the same time from a wide variety of exotic layered materials."

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