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Tiny 'LEGO brick' -style studs make solar panels a quarter more efficient
by Simon Levey
18 October 2013

In new research, scientists have demonstrated that the efficiency of all solar panel designs could be improved by up to 22 per cent by covering their surface with aluminium studs that bend and trap light inside the absorbing layer.



http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandev...10-2013-12-9-7

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