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According to a recent University of Texas (in Austin) press release, solar cells could soon extract twice as many electrons from each photon of sunlight received. This would be achieved using an organic plastic semiconductor material.

Solar cells are, themselves, a semiconductor material which is often printed onto a substrate such as glass or plastic (just to clarify this for you), and they are encased in solar panels for protection.

“Plastic semiconductor solar cell production has great advantages, one of which is low-cost,” said Zhu, a professor of chemistry. “Combined with the vast capabilities for molecular design and synthesis, our discovery opens the door to an exciting new approach for solar energy conversion, leading to much higher efficiencies.”

The maximum theoretical efficiency of the type of silicon solar cell that is usually used today is 31%, and these researchers say that they can achieve a 50% to 100% efficiency improvement.

Source: CleanTechnica

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