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March 06, 2015

Solar cells get growth boost
Okinawa, Japan (SPX) Mar 06, 2015
Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University's (OIST) Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit have found that growing a type of film used to manufacture solar cells in ambient air gives it a growth boost. The finding, which could make manufacturing solar cells significantly cheaper, was published in Chemistry of Materials. The type of material is called Perovskite. Since the discovery of its application in harvesting light for electricityin 2009, research o ... read more

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