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👀 Mirrored box approach might surpass the Shockley-Queisser limit?
“Scientists used a very thin layer of silver, thin enough to let most of the light through, operate as a conductor, and also behave partly like a mirror. This restricted the angles through which light could escape.”
techradar.com
Solar panel researchers say cells could hit 43% efficiency by using this new approach to reducing infrared glow
Researchers from the ICFO in Barcelona have turned a solar cell into a mirrored box to improve its function.
