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3-D nanocone solar cell boosts PV conversion efficiency by nearly 80%

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With the creation of a 3-D nanocone-based solar cell platform, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jun Xu has boosted the light-to-power conversion efficiency of photovoltaics by nearly 80 percent. The technology substantially overcomes the problem of poor transport of charges generated by solar photons.

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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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Knowing how many solar panels are on a roof informs us about the maximum possible rate of local generation but not about the annual capacity factor or about the final uses of generated electricity. This means that in 2019 about 770 million people had no electricity, three-quarters of them in Africa. What does 50 kWh/year deliver?

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Northwestern team develops new approach to catalyst design using SPBCL and DFT; new HER catalyst 7x more active than Pt

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—Professor Chad A. Liliang Huang, Peng-Cheng Chen, Mohan Liu, Xianbiao Fu, Pavlo Gordiichuk, Yanan Yu, Chris Wolverton, Yijin Kang, Chad A. Mirkin, co-corresponding author. The global catalysis market is expected to reach $34.3 billion in the next six years, according to a report by Grand View Research, Inc. 1800884115.

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A Cheapskate in Monterey

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My introduction to Monterey, John Steinbeck’s 1945 classic novel “Cannery Row,” describes its waterfront lined in sardine canneries as “a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.” The winemaker Chad Silacci and two other family members worked the bar and the crowd. I started at the 2.4-acre

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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As engineers at ASML explained in Spectrum ‘s August issue , the version of the technology in use now is limited to making patterns with a resolution of about the wavelength of its light, 13.5 At that scale the electric field that speeds the electrons along comes from the light’s oscillating electric field. nanometers.

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Ioxus Developing Higher Power Density Ultracapacitors

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Smaller Ioxus cells offer a power density of 22-28 kW/kg, and larger cells offer densities of 12-15 kW/kg, said Chad Hall, COO of Ioxus. Ioxus expects a new set of cells, targeted for release at the end of the year with different terminations, to surpass Maxwell’s large cells in both volumetric and gravimetric power densities.

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