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Solar innovator Natcore and NREL team up to push the cost of black silicon solar cells down, down, down with new copper based catalytic...
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Solar innovator Natcore and NREL team up to push the cost of black silicon solar cells down, down, down with new copper based catalytic...
As noted in an article yesterday, I’ve been very busy in the past month (well, months…) moving into a new home and following the birth of...
Natcore Technology’s black silicon wafers have now been processed into actual working solar cells in a production line, rather than a laboratory setting, for...
The solar company Natcore Technologies is set to take a huge bite out of the cost of producing solar cells while reducing the amount...
It looks like black is the new black when it comes to solar cell efficiency. A team of researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
Researchers at Fraunhofer ISE of Germany and Aalto University of Finland have developed a black silicon solar cell that achieved 18.7% efficiency. This is...
A significant breakthrough has been made in the light absorption and surface passivation abilities of silicon nano-structures (such as black silicon) by researchers at Aalto...
Finding ways to reduce the reflectivity of silicon PV cells to near zero and produce them cheaply enough in commercial quantities is a big...
Black-silicon solar cells with 18.2% efficiency have been created by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). These don’t...
While conventional solar cells can absorb a good portion of the Sun’s light, they completely miss the boat on getting anything from the infrared...
Natcore Tech and National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) scientists have created the “blackest” solar cell to date, a black silicon solar cell that...