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Sol Voltaics Aligns, Orients Nanowires in Solar Thin Film

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LUND, Sweden, April 25, 2016 — Advanced materials startup Sol Voltaics AB has reported successful alignment and orientation of nanowires in a thin film, an achievement the company said will pave the way for a 50 percent boost in photovoltaic (PV) module efficiencies. Nanowires hold promise for solar energy generation but are notoriously difficult to align due to their high aspect ratios and material characteristics. By controlling nanowire orientation and alignment at centimeter scale on standard-sized wafers, Sol Voltaics said taken a major step toward the commercial production of solar films for tandem solar PV...Read full article

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    Published: April 2016
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    nano
    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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