ApocaDocs: Discovery of a 'Dark State' Could Mean a Brighter Future for Solar Energy

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Posted Mon Dec 19 2011: from University of Texas at Austin:


	Discovery of a 'Dark State' Could Mean a Brighter Future for Solar Energy http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1324306557 The efficiency of conventional solar cells could be significantly increased, according to new research on the mechanisms of solar energy conversion led by chemist Xiaoyang Zhu at The University of Texas at Austin. Zhu and his team have discovered that it's possible to double the number of electrons harvested from one photon of sunlight using an organic plastic semiconductor material...Zhu and his team ... discovered that a photon produces a dark quantum "shadow state" from which two electrons can then be efficiently captured to generate more energy in the semiconductor pentacene.

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'Doc Michael says:

I will kid you not, an encouraging development, this is.