Physics and Astronomy News Archive: April 2018

Image: Organic solar cells reach record efficiency

Organic solar cells reach record efficiency
Source: UMich Posted: 4/30/18
In an advance that makes a more flexible, inexpensive type of solar cell commercially viable, researchers have demonstrated organic solar cells that can achieve 15% efficiency.

'To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'

Isaac Newton
(1643-1727)