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Archive Home > 2009 > August > 31 > Future of solar power: 10 times more efficient?

Future of solar power: 10 times more efficient?

By Shara Yurkiewicz / The Bulletin
August 31, 2009

PASADENA, Calif. " In a lab at the California Institute of Technology, Harry Atwater holds up a plastic panel a fraction of a millimeter thick. Even in the bright room, the surface's panel remains jet-black " absorbing all the light that hits it.

The high-tech material is 10 times more....

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