100% efficent solar

[faethor]

1 Photon breaks into 2 electrons in the most efficient possible solar cell... Now onto production!

 

[Glaucus]

Nice, but where do you get the 100% from? The article mentions 30%.

 

[faethor]

"MIT researchers develop an organic solar cell that breaks 100 percent quantum efficiency"

 

[Glaucus]

"MIT researchers develop an organic solar cell that breaks 100 percent quantum efficiency"

Ah, I see it now. It was the sub heading. But the article says this:

But Baldo says it should be possible to create a pentacene coating for silicon solar cells that boosts the total conversion efficiency from today’s 25 percent to a shade over 30 percent—a significant jump.

Weird.

 

[cecilia]

in between bomb threats MIT concentrates on science!

love that science!