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RESEARCHNovember 17, 2008Rubber loosens up siliconEmbed silicon wires in rubber and you've got a key solar cell component that's flexible and highly efficient.The vertical silicon rods are made at temperatures that are too high for flexible materials, but after they're made, arrays of the rods can be embedded in rubber. The result is a flexible material that has the potential to make solar cells that are more efficient than other flexible solar cells. Research paper: Flexible Polymer-Embedded Si Wire Arrays Advanced Materials, published online November 14, 2008 Researchers' homepages: The Lewis Group, California Institute of Technology Atwater Research Group, California Institute of Technology Bruce S. Brunschwig Related stories and briefs: Process prints flexible silicon solar cells -- related research Back to ERN November 17/24, 2008 |
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