Wafer-sized solar cells give way to micron-sized ones
Keywords: solar cell MEMS solar panel
[Summary of tips] Sandia National Labs has taken advantage of silicon's natural tendency to grow into islands and used MEMS techniques to free those islands into the smallest solar cells.The micron-sized solar cells are as efficient as their wafer-sized big brothers, but consume only one hundredth the amount of semiconductor, Sandia claimed.Rath......|
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