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UK achieves cheap, rare-earth-free solar cell breakthrough to fight China dominance
The new flexible solar cell can be used on surfaces that could not normally stand the weight of solar panels, creating ...
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‘Solar sandwich’ of old, new solar cells could unlock next-level power
The researchers made a solar sandwich or a solar cell containing selenium as the top layer while the silicon component occupied the bottom. Selenium can act as a wide bandgap photo absorber ...
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Air Force lab demonstrates key element for beaming solar power from space
In the first end-to-end demonstration of key hardware for the Arachne flight experiment, a team used components for the “sandwich tile” to convert solar energy to RF. Arachne is a flight ...