discovery should lead solar energy collection to much higher collection efficiency.

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The discovery has now been made, it's just a matter of using that information to work the technology into a cheap and functioning coating. Nothing in the article about how long that could take to bring the tech to market, but it didn't sound too complicated.

Researchers have developed a new method for harvesting the energy carried by particles known as ‘dark’ spin-triplet excitons with close to 100% efficiency, clearing the way for hybrid solar cells which could far surpass current efficiency limits.

The team, from the University of Cambridge, have successfully harvested the energy of triplet excitons, an excited electron state whose energy in harvested in solar cells, and transferred it from organic to inorganic semiconductors. To date, this type of energy transfer had only been shown for spin-singlet excitons. The results are published in the journal Nature Materials.

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http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/hybrid-materials-could-smash-the-solar-efficiency-ceiling

 

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Re: discovery should lead solar energy collection to much higher collection efficienc

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