Sarah Kurtz
By Jeanne Roberts on November 10, 2011
Tags: Alta Devices Inc., Energy Efficient Electronics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S), concentrating solar power (CSP), electrons, epitaxial liftoff, gallium arsenide (GaAs), grid parity, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), National Renewable Energy Laboratory, National Science Foundation (NSF), photons, Shockley-Queisser Efficiency Limit (SQ), solar cells, tandem solar cells, thin-film photovoltaic (PV), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), California, Cornell University, Eli Yablonovitch, energy, Harry Atwater, Katherine Lau Chair, National Science Foundation, Owen Miller, Sarah Kurtz, semiconductor, U.S. Department of Energy, UC Berkeley, University of California
Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) has demonstrated a completely counter-intuitive result for thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) efficiencies, namely that the most efficient solar cells emit more photons than their competitors.
