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Technology Research News March 12, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Cheap solar power on deck Researchers from the University of California at Santa Barbara have come up with a new type of solar cell that may be much less expensive to manufacture than today's solar cells and can be improved to be nearly as efficient.
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IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Plastic Solar Cells Get a Boost by Doubling Up Scientists in Korea and California have invented a new way of boosting the efficiency of cheap plastic solar cells, making them more competitive with traditional silicon solar cells. The key is to make the solar cells in pairs.
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Technology Research News December 31, 2003	Electroplating boosts solar cells While not yet ready for practical use, researchers find that including titania in solar cell dyes can increase efficiency.
Technology Research News December 11, 2002 Kimberly Patch	Material soaks up the sun The semiconductor indium nitride got a raw deal a few decades back when it was misclassified as a mediocre photovoltaic. It turns out the stuff could be a champ at changing sunlight into electricity. If all goes according to plan, indium nitride will make for more efficient solar cells.
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National Defense August 2008 Grace V. Jean	Harnessing the Sun's Energy Through Transparent Photovoltaics Researchers here have developed a small transparent solar cell prototype that may one day capture sunlight streaming in through a window and produce enough electricity to power homes and office buildings.
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Chemistry World June 17, 2010 Hayley Birch	Keeping the heat up for super-efficient solar cells US scientists have found a way to siphon off the 'hot' electrons that are responsible for much of the energy lost in current solar cells.
Chemistry World July 24, 2006 Killugudi Jayaraman	Plastic Solar Cells Make Light Work Solar cells based on organic semiconductors instead of silicon could potentially turn wall paints into a source of electricity, but their low efficiency is a major roadblock. Scientists now believe they have a new approach to boosting the output from polymer cells.
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Chemistry World February 19, 2013 Andy Extance	Insulator pile shows solar potential Stacks of insulating transition metal oxides could effectively convert sunlight into electricity. A team in Austria, has calculated that layering LaVO 3 on a SrTiO 3 base could also deliver advantages conventional semiconductors can't.
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Chemistry World August 12, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Nanowire-tapping cells Nanoscale electronic probes that can enter cells without damaging them have been made by US scientists.
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Chemistry World April 18, 2013 Yuandi Li	Reducing the cost of perovskite solar cells A new way of making semiconducting perovskite-based solar cells could result in photovoltaic devices that are 70% cheaper than current commercial models, say UK scientists.
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Technology Research News March 10, 2004 Eric Smalley	Red wine mends solar cells Researchers from the University of Toledo have found a way to increase energy production using red wine.
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Technology Research News May 19, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Solar Crystals Get 2-for-1 Ordinary solar cells are designed to generate one electron for every photon they absorb. Solar cells made from nanocrystals open another possibility -- two electrons for every photon -- that promises to boost the potential amount of energy that can be harvested from the sun.
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IEEE Spectrum February 2010 Edward H. Sargent	Infrared Optoelectronics You Can Apply With a Brush Infrared quantum dots will lead to cheaper photovoltaic cells. When the fabrication of optoelectronic devices becomes almost as easy as splashing paint on a canvas, our assumptions about the high cost of high-performance optoelectronic devices will be turned on its head.
Chemistry World May 16, 2014 Vicki Marshall	The future is lead-free for perovskite solar cells A lead-free and non-toxic alternative to current perovskite solar-cell technology has been reported by researchers in the UK: tin halide perovskite solar cells.
IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Dave Levitan	The Solar Efficiency Gap Companies continue to push solar-cell efficiency records toward theoretical limits. Are actual production-line solar panels keeping up?
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Chemistry World January 31, 2007 Ned Stafford	Making Light Work The photovoltaic industry is nearing a breakthrough point, beyond which production capacity will soar, offering consumers a wide variety of options at much lower prices.
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