Unique patterned glass enables highly efficient self-cooling solar cells

07/26/2014 - 00:00


By Jake Lynn - 

By adding a specially patterned layer of silica glass to the surface of ordinary solar cells, a team of researchers led by Shanhui Fan, an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University in California has found a way to let solar cells cool themselves by shepherding away unwanted thermal radiation.

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