InP nanowires make good solar cells

Indium phosphide (InP) nanowires could be used to make highly efficient solar cells say researchers in Sweden and Germany. Cells made of these nanowires have efficiencies as high as 13.8% while covering only about 12% of the surface of a device. They can also convert as much as 71% of incoming sunlight with energy higher than the band gap of InP into photocurrent……

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