Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science
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The Beauty of the Computer Model and the Indifferent Materials for Solar Cells
In organic semi conductors, molecular semi conductor material, if you understand the properties of the molecule, and that something which is quite accessible with computer methods. But in gallium arsenide, you could understand everything there is to know about gallium, but it tells you nothing about gallium arcenide. It's a different beast m and so there's a lot of potential. If we were just to say to do, to take the completely empirical trial and error approach,you know, there would be far too many materials and far too much data. So i don't think we're at that place yet.
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