MIT spin-off plans to manufacture cheap, efficient solar cells

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In the new solar cell design by MIT researchers more light can be captured increasing efficiency and decreasing cost per watt. Image credit: 1366 Technologies.
In the new solar cell design by MIT researchers, more light can be captured, increasing efficiency and decreasing cost per watt. Image credit: 1366 Technologies.

Researchers from MIT have improved commercial solar cells that will soon be significantly cheaper and more efficient than those available today. Ely Sachs, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, predicts that by 2012 such solar cells will be comparable in price with coal, which is about $1 per watt.


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