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CTZSS: IBM's New Solar Cell

10 February, 2010 - 04:05

CTZSS.
It doesn't really roll off the tongue as easily as CIGS, but IBM says
that its new solar cell could potentially lower the price of solar
power in the future. The solar cell is made from copper, tin, zinc, sulfur and selenium,
all of which are somewhat earth-abundant, according to IBM. The test
cell achieves a 9.6 percent efficiency, or around 40 percent higher
than the 6.7 percent ceiling achieved by other, earlier cells made from
the...



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