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November 19, 2013

2 for 1 in solar power
Cambridge UK (SPX) Nov 19, 2013
Solar cells offer the opportunity to harvest abundant, renewable energy. Although the highest energy light occurs in the ultraviolet and visible spectrum, most solar energy is in the infrared. There is a trade-off in harvesting this light, so that solar cells are efficient in the infrared but waste much of the energy available from the more energetic photons in the visible part of the spectrum. When a photon is absorbed it creates a single electronic excitation that is then separated into an elect ... read more

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