Current photovoltaic technology relies on the use of silicon wafers which must be ultrapure and are very expensive to produce. Now Goyal and co-workers have come up with an exciting and much cheaper solution: thin films of silicon on a much cheaper Ni-W template.
Read the full details in this HOT EES communication today:
Heteroepitaxial film silicon solar cell grown on Ni-W foils
Sung Hun Wee, Claudia Cantoni, Thomas R. Fanning, Charles W. Teplin, Daniela F. Bogorin, Jon Bornstein, Karen Bowers, Paul Schroeter, Falah Hasoon, Howard M. Branz, M. Parans Paranthaman and Amit Goyal
DOI: 10.1039/C2EE03350J
