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Etching a Simple Pattern on Solar Panels Boosts Light Absorption by 125%
- thedanbob 6y agoAt one point the article says it “generates about 125 percent as much” as normal cells, which would be just 1.25x. But I found the actual paper[0] and the title (“boosts” by 125% i.e. 2.25x) is in fact correct. [0] https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica-7-10-1377 https://www.osapublishing.org/optica/abstract.cfm?uri=optica...
- ncmncm 6y agoCan somebody please interpret this? It seems to be claiming 20% efficient panel can be made into a 45% efficient panel with just a surface treatment, which would be obvious BS. Comments toward the end suggest that it would not improve an existing panel (much?) but would enable a much thinner panel to extract as much energy as the ones now fielded. That might mean, what? Lighter panels, roll-up panels, ink-jet sprayed panels?