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Chopping up photons

Nature Photonics volume 2, page 122 (2008)Cite this article

Conventional solar cells lose most of the Sun's energy as heat. Nature Photonics spoke to Tom Gregorkiewicz at the University of Amsterdam about his group's latest work, which may lead to cheap and efficient silicon solar cells by harnessing some of the lost energy.

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Jenkins, A. Chopping up photons. Nature Photon 2, 122 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.296

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