"The oxides used to create the material are actually isolators. However, if two appropriate types of isolators are stacked..."
Perhaps the author meant "insulators"

lol, yeah, insulators no doubt.

Translation humor aside:

I'm not holding my breath until they actually manage to fabricate one AND demonstrate that it works. Then there's the added complications of durability and manufacturing. If the material is too prone to defects and such then it may not be useful, for example.

There are a TON of ideas like this floating around right now, but none of them seem to be 100% ready for prime time yet.

Some of the best work I've seen recently in this field is coming out of MIT. I'd keep my eye on them if you're interested in advanced thin film solar cells.

Perhaps the author meant "insulators"

Probably. (The german word for insulator is 'Isolator'. Looks like a translation SNAFU)

The abstract (from the link at the bottom of the article) sounds extremely promising, though - because it adresses all of the things that impact solar cells:
- fast charge separation
- gradual band gap for full spectrum conversion
- minimal material requirements

This is getting ridiculous. Almost every day there is an article about some awesome discovery that *should* allow to create better solar cells. Like the child who cries wolf, at some point people won't pay attention anymore.

You're welcome.

Anyone who posts in clear contravention to forum guidelines deserves no less for his complete regard to netiquette.

@DavidW: You're off-topic and you hardly make sense.

Who really knows the perfect time? If we discover too fast it appears that extinction is a really possibility, sooner, rather than later. But then if all humans are going to eventually die, then perhaps less suffing now is better? The truth is what tells us that life is important. The truth says to try to do the most good. The real power rests with the truth. This is the power that we people need to remember.


The truth tells us? Would that be in English? Mandarin Chinese? In Maths? Did the truth speak to ya about staying out in the sun to long and letting your brain getting short-circuited? I think that is about as close to the truth and this topic ya're going to get.

DavidW, did the truth say to ya anything about the subject of this article?

Maybe the truth told ya to not bother reading the article and just jump on in with the "truth's" whisperings in your ears. They have medication for those type of truths.

Come dude. you think you have a point? huh? I'll be more than happy to debate you in front of everyone you know witnessing the truthful facts, crying and shaking in disbelief... as you try to find excuses for your bad behaviour. Any day, bring it on. Until then, sit down and shut up.


Is that a general Dude? Or a specific Dude? If it's a general generic dude, I'm game. But I've got to head home for now,,,,, tomorrow maybe? Spend the night productively, I'll spend mine sleeping. Toot-A-Loo.

Mmmmm ... more layers? Although each layer/interface is but one more barrier for power flow to jump.

Of interest in this regard: The shady side could also be a thermal-voltiac layer. A possible improvement in overall power through put. (All Solar photo-voltiac cells get hot on the Sunny side, this temperature differential IS power untapped.)

... Perhaps the author meant "insulators"


Isolators v. insulators, a semantic / language difference, most likely. The Viennese think different? Not!


David, our purpose it to create super advanced technologies and then combine them with advanced technologies developed by life in other galaxies......to create a hyper technology that becomes one with the universe (merges with the fabric of the universe).

Thats the best i can think of.

This is not a game.

Agreed.

So exactly why are you wasting your life playing "fairy in the sky" again?

"This is getting ridiculous. Almost every day there is an article about some awesome discovery that *should* allow to create better solar cells. Like the child who cries wolf, at some point people won't pay attention anymore."

We are putting great effort into solar cell efficiency. There is a chart on the efficiency over time on wikipedia (don't have the link) but If you look, we are making stead progress. I don't think on this subject that there will be great leaps, just incremental ones. Although at some point like many technological development curves, it might just go Asymptotic since most tech curves go that way or into S-Curves. http://rawcell.com