European Supercomputer Reveals Silicon Defects Could Push Solar Efficiency to 31%
For decades, solar cell engineers have treated imperfections in silicon as a flaw to be engineered away. Now a research team at the University of Paderborn in Germany has found that one class of those imperfections may be doing useful work instead. Running first-principles quantum simulations on the Hawk supercomputer at the HLRS computing centre … Read more