AMERICAN AND CANADIAN SCIENTISTS MAKE BREAKTHROUGH IN CREATING SOLAR-THERMAL CELLS
November 1st, 2012
BY ROBERT STOKES
IF a man can make a better mousetrap than his neighbour, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, the American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson was (erroneously) quoted as having written in the nineteenth century. Solar power researchers in the USA and Canada claim to have built not just one, but two better 'mousetraps' by coming up with a paradigm-shifting approach to improving both the electrical and thermal efficiencies of thin-film hybrid photovoltaic thermal (PV/T) devices.
Thin-film photovoltaic (PV) cells offer the most usable ...
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