Nanowire Superhighway For Thin-Film Solar Cells
By Nick May 20, 2008
Electrical engineers from the University of California, San Diego, developed a new method that could lead to the thin-film solar cells of the future, with highly increased performance. Researchers spiked regular solar cells with nanowires that serve as electron superhighways for electrons resulted from the photons of light.
These ’superhighways’ directly take the electrons to the electron-attracting electrode, so the entire process of energy could receive a great boost from shortening their way. The nanowires are made of Indium phosphide (InP), and they were proved to increase the volume of electrical current in the experimental solar cell by 6 orders of magnitude compared to the previous control device.
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