Hoping for a sunny day?
It seems like renewable sources of energy – and solar technology in particular – are rapidly gaining attention and momentum. Driven by rising energy prices, but equally by favourable tax breaks in a number of European countries, solar cells and panels are on everyone’s mind these days, with deployment growth rates on the order of 50 per cent being reported by the German Energy Agency.As a result of this “market pull,” significant effort is being put into developing photovoltaics technology,...
Photonics.com, November 2008