In the latest issue of Science, researchers from Lund
University in Sweden have shown how nanowires could pave the way for more
efficient and cheaper solar cells.
“Our findings are the first to show that it really is
possible to use nanowires to manufacture solar cells”, says Magnus Borgström, a
researcher in semiconductor physics and the principal author.
Research on solar cell nanowires is on the rise globally.
Until now the unattained dream figure was ten per cent efficiency – but now Dr
Borgström and his colleagues are able to report an efficiency of 13.8 per cent.