Research Highlights Potential for Improved Solar Cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Los Alamos researchers led by Victor Klimov has shown that carrier multiplication—when a photon creates multiple electrons—is a real phenomenon in tiny semiconductor crystals and not a false observation born of extraneous effects that mimic carrier multiplication. The research, explained in a recent issue of Accounts of Chemical Research, shows the possibility of solar cells that create more than one unit of energy per photon.

If you want to include this story in your blog, copy and paste this formatted text:

<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news153507595.html">Research Highlights Potential for Improved Solar Cells</a></p> <p>(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Los Alamos researchers led by Victor Klimov has shown that carrier multiplication—when a photon creates multiple electrons—is a real phenomenon in tiny semiconductor crystals and not a false observation born of extraneous effects that mimic carrier multiplication. The research, explained in a recent issue of <i>Accounts of Chemical Research</i>, shows the possibility of solar cells that create more than one unit of energy per photon.</p>