The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has awarded funding totaling £1m to two universities – University College London (UCL) and Bristol – to support the development of compound ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Silicon Substrates
In collaboration with Imperial College London in the UK and MicroLink Devices Inc of Niles, IL, USA, researchers in the US Naval Research Laboratory’s Electronics Technology and Science have proposed a novel triple-junction solar ...
Researchers based in the USA and France have created graphene nanoribbon structures with regions that have relatively large energy bandgaps of about 0.5eV [J. Hicks et al, Nature Physics, published online 18 November 2012]. Flat graphene ...
Tags: silicon carbide, graphene, nanoribbon structures, bandgaps, energy bands
20 June 2012 Cubic silicon carbide grown with quality similar to hexagonal SiC Cubic silicon carbide(3C-SiC)is considered to be very suitable for making highly efficient solar cells but the material quality has been poor compared with the ...
Tags: hexagonal SiC, Solar cells, Cubic silicon carbide, highly efficiency