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Article: ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT Efficiency of Polymer Solar Cells Improving.
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- Nanoparticle News
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Researchers at Wake Forest University's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have made significant strides in improving the efficiency of organic flexible solar cells. In collaboration with researchers from New Mexico State University, they have achieved an efficiency rate for organic solar cells of almost 6%. Traditional silicon solar panels are heavy and bulky and convert only about 20% of incident light to useful electrical power. For years, researchers have worked to create flexible, or "conformal," organic solar cells that can be wrapped around surfaces, rolled up or even painted onto structures, but the best scientists have been able to do is about 3% ...