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Solvents save steps in solar cell manufacturing
2015-10-20 01:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Advances in ultrathin films have made solar panels and semiconductor devices more efficient and less costly, and researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory say they've found a way to manufacture the films more easily, too. Typically the films--used by organic bulk heterojunction solar cells, or BHJs, to convert solar energy into electricity--are created in a solution by mixing together conjugated polymers and fullerenes, soccer ball-like carbon molecules also known as...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical