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Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record At 40.8 Percent
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by Erik Larson | September 30, 2008 at 10:22 am
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It's an "inverted metamorphic triple-junction solar cell". Advances in solar are going the way of computer processor speed and storage and many other information technologies; increasing power, speed and efficiency, decreasing cost, space, waste.
Solar Power to Rule in 20 Years, Futurists Say
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have set a world record in solar cell efficiency with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of the light that hits it into electricity. This is the highest confirmed efficiency of any photovoltaic device to date.
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at 13:39 on September 30th, 2008
Erik Larson, I like this story. It's good stuff. gallium arsenide wafer, solar cells 40% efficiency from 10% great report