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1-µm-Thick Solar Cell Could Advance Wearable Electronics

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An ultrathin photovoltaic that is flexible enough to wrap around an object just 1-mm thick may offer the reliability and flexibility that wearable technologies require, at a performance level comparable to thicker photovoltaics. Researchers at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology used transfer printing to make ultrathin, vertical type GaAs photovoltaic devices with a total thickness of 1 μm — about one quarter the size of similar devices with a lateral design. Ultrathin solar cells are flexible enough to bend around small objects, such as the 1-mm-thick edge of...Read full article

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    Published: June 2016
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    photon
    A quantum of electromagnetic energy of a single mode; i.e., a single wavelength, direction and polarization. As a unit of energy, each photon equals hn, h being Planck's constant and n, the frequency of the propagating electromagnetic wave. The momentum of the photon in the direction of propagation is hn/c, c being the speed of light.
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