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Article: Scientists Find New Way to Make Cheap Plastic Solar Cells
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 29, 2002
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Combining nanotechnology with new "plastic" semiconductor
technique, U.S. scientists have developed a way to make cheap solar
cells flexible enough to paintonto any surface and able to provide
power for wearable electronics.
Their results "demonstrate that semiconductor nanorods can be used
to fabricate readily processed and efficient hybrid solar cells
together with polymers," the researchers from University of
California, Berkeley, wrote in the Friday issue of Science magazine.
Nanorods are pure clusters of atoms with dimensions on the order
of a nanometer, or a billionth of a meter. The solar cells developed
by the group consist of a 200-nanometer-thick layer of plastic