Wednesday, May 25, 2016

New Solar Cell Turns Light Into Heat to Potentially Double Effiency

Source: http://gizmodo.com/new-solar-cell-turns-light-into-heat-to-potentially-dou-1778593027

There’s a annoying theoretical limit on the efficiency of solar cells that limits the amount of electricity they can create from sunlight. But now a team of MIT engineers has developed a system that overcomes the problem by first converting light to heat—and it could double the efficiency of solar cells.

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