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ARPA-E Supports 12 Unique Solar Projects With $30 Million

February 7th, 2014 | by Zach

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz this week announced $30 million of support for 12 more unique, hybrid solar projects through the ARPA-E

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"The MIT team found that an effective solar cell could be made from a stack of two one-molecule-thick materials: Graphene (a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms, shown at bottom in blue) and molybdenum disulfide (above, with molybdenum atoms shown in red and sulfur in yellow). The two sheets together are thousands of times thinner than conventional silicon solar cells."
Image Credit: Jeffrey Grossman and Marco Bernardi

Are Super-Thin Solar Cells The Future? New Solar Cells Developed That Are Pound For Pound Up To 1000 Times More Powerful Than Conventional Photovoltaics

June 28th, 2013 | by James Ayre

The general drive in the solar energy technology industry has been towards the development of higher solar cell efficiencies and

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