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Article: Hybrid semiconductor-polymer solar cells. (Processing).
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- High Performance Plastics
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of California (both of the USA) report that they have jointly developed a semiconductor-containing polymer with photovoltaic (solar cell) applications.
The new solar cell material has a higher rate of photovoltaic efficiency than conducting plastics but is said to be simpler to process than solar cells based on inorganic semiconductors.
The use of solar cells has so far been limited compared with traditional means of electrical energy generation. Apart from the obvious limiting factor of the weather, one of the main reasons for this is the fact that production costs are very ...