Solar cells of the future
Date: 21.12.2007
A new material, nano flakes, may revolutionise the transformation of **solar energy** to electricity. If so, even ordinary households can benefit from solar electricity and save money in the future.
If researcher Martin Aagesen’s future solar cells meet the expectations, both your economy and the environment will benefit from the research. Less than 1 per cent of the world’s electricity comes from the sun because it is difficult to transform solar energy to electricity. But Martin Aagesen’s discovery may be a huge step towards boosting the exploitation of **solar energy**.
"I discovered a perfect crystalline structure. That is a very rare sight. While being a perfect **crystalline structure** we could see that it also absorbed all light. It could become the perfect solar cell," says Martin Aagesen. The discovery of the new material has sparked a lot of attention internationally and has led to an article in "Nature Nanotechnology":[ http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v2/n12/full/nnano.2007.378.html].
Source: materials provided by "University of Copenhagen":[ http://nano.ku.dk/english/news/solar_cells_of_the_future/]
