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Ford Prefect · 02-27-2009, 11:42 AM

Not to be dismissive of this news, but researchers at MIT already came up with something that sounds pretty much the same, except the MIT guys boast a 50% increase in efficiency.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/s...ency-1126.html

"Using computer modeling and a variety of advanced chip-manufacturing techniques, they have applied an antireflection coating to the front, and a novel combination of multi-layered reflective coatings and a tightly spaced array of lines -- called a diffraction grating -- to the backs of ultrathin silicon films to boost the cells' output by as much as 50 percent."

Or is the stuff the guys in Edmonton developed news because it's cheaper and more suitable for mass marketing?

02-27-2009, 11:42 AM	#6
Ford Prefect Has Towel, Will Travel Join Date: Jul 2006 Exp:	Not to be dismissive of this news, but researchers at MIT already came up with something that sounds pretty much the same, except the MIT guys boast a 50% increase in efficiency. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/s...ency-1126.html "Using computer modeling and a variety of advanced chip-manufacturing techniques, they have applied an antireflection coating to the front, and a novel combination of multi-layered reflective coatings and a tightly spaced array of lines -- called a diffraction grating -- to the backs of ultrathin silicon films to boost the cells' output by as much as 50 percent." Or is the stuff the guys in Edmonton developed news because it's cheaper and more suitable for mass marketing?