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October 22, 2013

Tiny 'LEGO brick' style studs make solar panels a quarter more efficient
London, UK (SPX) Oct 22, 2013
Rows of aluminium studs help solar panels extract more energy from sunlight than those with flat surfaces. Most solar cells used in homes and industry are made using thick layers of material to absorb sunlight, but have been limited in the past by relatively high costs. Many new, lower cost designs are limited as their layer of light-absorbing material is too thin to extract enough energy. In new research, scientists have demonstrated that the efficiency of all solar panel designs could be i ... read more

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