Size Matters: Smaller Particles Could Make Solar Panels More Efficient

Size Matters: Smaller Particles Could Make Solar Panels More Efficient
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:27:00 -0500

Studies done by Mark Lusk and colleagues at the Colorado School of Mines could significantly improve the efficiency of solar cells. Their latest work describes how the size of light-absorbing particles--quantum dots--affects the particles' ability to transfer energy to electrons to generate electricity.

The results are published in the April issue of the journal ACS Nano.

The advance provides evidence to support a controversial idea, called multiple-exciton generation ...

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