Striking up the intermediate band
Dallas Kachan, Inside Greentech, June 21, 2007
Excerpts from the article:
In the world of solar photovolatics, today's high performance multijunction cell is the undisputed rock star. And where there are rock stars, contenders lurk in the wings.
The leading advocate of a promising new high performance solar cell technology, Dr. Antonio Luque of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, today introduced his "intermediate band" cell design to an audience of largely polo-shirted researchers in a lecture at Xerox's fabled Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in Palo Alto, California. [ed.: as a matter of fact, we only counted one suit in the room.]
While still largely theoretical, Luque's intermediate band design could promise efficiencies even higher than today's highest performing multijunction cells.
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