Berkeley Lab Develops Technology To Make Photovoltaics Out of Any Semiconductor

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday July 29, 2012 @06:22AM from the easy-solar dept.

First time accepted submitter bigvibes writes "A technology that would enable low-cost, high efficiency solar cells to be made from virtually any semiconductor material has been developed by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley. This technology allows for plentiful, relatively inexpensive semiconductors, such as metal oxides, sulfides and phosphides that had previously been considered unsuitable for solar cells because of the difficulty in tailoring their properties by chemical means."

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Available 5 years from now by John+Bokma · 2012-07-29 06:24 · Score: 3, Funny

as usual :-)

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Acronym abuse by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-29 06:33 · Score: 5, Funny

“screening-engineered field-effect photovoltaics,” or SFPV
The two hyphenated pairs get a single letter. The single compound word gets two letter. Stop the madness!
Re:*yawn* by turkeyfeathers · 2012-07-29 06:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Sorry, they've signed an exclusivity deal with Lowe's.
Re:Works for me by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-29 07:22 · Score: 2, Funny

Build?
I expect to be able to print my house.
http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/3d-printing-buildings.html