Boosting Photovoltaic Efficiency with Multiple Excitons

Patricia Daukantas

Three U.S. chemists have found a way to wring more electrons per photon from quantum dots, and their technique could lead to new kinds of efficient, inexpensive solar cells.

 

Scatterings imageBruce Parkinson holds a quantum-dot-sensitized panel.

Three U.S. chemists have found a way to wring more electrons per photon from quantum dots, and their technique could lead to new kinds of efficient, inexpensive solar cells.

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