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Saturday, June 16, 2012
Organic Solar Cells One Step Closer To Success
redOrbit: Organic solar cells have long been a promising alternative to conventional solar cells, but their low efficiency, low stability, and low strength have kept them from widespread commercial use. Senior chemist Lin Chen of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory hopes to change that by focusing on a key component of the cells, the exciton. According to Chen, excitons are considered a sort of "quasiparticle," because they exhibit certain exceptional behaviors. When the...
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