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Article: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA TEAM DEVELOPING BLACK SOLAR CELLS FOR GREENER FUTURE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 4, 2008
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The University of Virginia issued the following news release:
Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently. That's the promise of new research from an interdisciplinary team at the University of Virginia being funded by a new U.Va. Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant worth about $30,000.
While current solar cells reflect about 30 percent of the light energy that reaches their surface, the U.Va. team will use lasers to create tiny nanoscale surface textures that reduce that energy loss to less than 1 percent, over the entire solar spectrum and irrespective of the angle at which sunlight strikes the cell.
While increasing ...
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