Triple Junction Solar Cells Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 26 May 2010 20:50:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Close Competition for Most Efficient Concentrator Solar Cells from U.S.-Based Spire Corporation https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spire-concentrator-solar-cells-record-20100526/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/spire-concentrator-solar-cells-record-20100526/#respond Wed, 26 May 2010 20:50:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7752 Spire Semiconductor, a subsidiary of Spire Corporation based in Massachusetts, has announced that they have matched world's record 41.1 efficiency for a concentrator solar cell (the sources don't mention it, but that's probably the one achieved by Fraunhofer researchers we talked about a week ago).

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