Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science
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Solar Cells - What's Happening With Them?
The author was working in the field of nogally marsani based solar cell designs for six or seven years. He decided he couldn't see those sorts of solar cells being used in a widespread way, because there is such an intensive process to make good quality crystals and so on. At the time, m solar cells were expensive. And so there's a lot of interest in finding cheaper semi conductor materials. That was my motivation.
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