Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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The Motivation of Materials for Solar Cells
The motivation isn't so much looking at it just in terms of ideal efficiency. It's how can we circumvent the real world constraints of cost and so forth, to be able to come up with materials that can actually deliver things more cheaply. So i mean, i hadi had a sortof, still had an interest in the optical properties of amporous metal oxides used in disensitised solar cels. Had, you know, two offers, an andthiis the one i didn't follow. And then some point in the mid nineties, i discovered that i had a colleague who was doing research on a new type of solar cell which happened to be the same
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