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

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Research that forms the foundation of this technology was accepted by this year’s Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers photovoltaic specialist conference and will be published in the IEEE Proceedings. —Jun Xu. UT-Battelle manages ORNL for DOE’s Office of Science.

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Rose, Chad L. Anderson (2011) MetILs: A Family Of Metal Ionic Liquids For Redox Flow Batteries (Electrical Energy Storage Applications & Technologies (EESAT) Conference). The next step for the Sandia team is to find similar materials for flow battery anodes. Pratt III, Alyssa J. Staiger, David Ingersoll and Travis M. Dalton Trans.

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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When a version was leaked ahead of a major conference, things got ugly. The Practical Power of Fusing Photons Chad Hagen Silicon solar cells are relatively cheap and plentiful, but they miss out on a lot of energy in sunlight. A rival group at Google responded that it didn’t, but the company wouldn’t publish the rival’s results.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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James Cortada I believe it would be because a lot of the work that it does is behind the scenes in conference rooms and data centers that the public doesn't see. Our theme music is by Chad Crouch. Years ago, IBM would be at the top of that list. Would IBM still be on the list today? You could go to the U.S.

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