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vansig
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PV continues to make incremental advances. here is news of recent progress with thin-films:
“Plasmons are a type of wave that moves through the electrons at the surface of a metal when they are excited by incident light.”
“Catchpole’s experimental devices produce 30 percent more electrical current than conventional thin-film silicon cells.”
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/25083/