Reduced costs for industry A team of researchers from the Nanoengineering Research Centre (CRNE) and the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Ba... Read more
A new way of making crystalline silicon, developed by U-M researchers, could make this crucial ingredient of computers and solar cells much cheaper and greener. Silicon dioxide, or sand, mak... Read more
Sandia developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic (PV) cells that could revolutionize solar energy collection. The crystalline silicon micro-PV cells will be cheaper and have greater e... Read more
It may have made another sort of mistake in solar energy The company had a head start on technology that allows solar cells to be manufactured more cheaply, but lost out to Chinese co... Read more