• DOI:10.1038/513470A
Corpus ID: 205082350

Cheap solar cells tempt businesses

@article{Noorden2014CheapSC,
  title={Cheap solar cells tempt businesses},
  author={R. V. Noorden},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2014},
  volume={513},
  pages={470-470}
}

• R. V. Noorden
• Published 2014
• Materials Science
• Nature

O lga Malinkiewicz, a PhD student studying photovoltaics at the University of Valencia in Spain, first heard about perovskites, the latest hope for low-cost solar power, in April last year. Unlike the slabs of purified silicon at the heart of the solar cells that currently dominate the market, perov-skites form thin films that are easily made in the lab by mixing together cheap salts. " I couldn't believe it was so simple, " says Malink-iewicz, who immediately tried it herself. A year later… Expand

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