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Breakthrough barium titanate solar panels are 1000x more powerful than existing panels (www.thebrighterside.news)
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Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have discovered a new method to increase the efficiency of solar cells by a factor of 1,000. The team of scientists achieved this breakthrough by creating crystalline layers of barium titanate, strontium titanate, and calcium titanate, which were alternately placed on top of one another in a lattice structure.

Their findings, which could revolutionize the solar energy industry, were recently published in the journal Science Advances.

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[โ€“] fr0g@piefed.social 47 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

The headline seems to be a but misleading though. Seems like it's 1000x more efficient than pure barium titanate would be.
Also seems like it has the potential to be much ore efficient than conventional silicon based panels, but not by a factor of 1000.

[โ€“] ZeroGravitas@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the reality check. Still a huge result if it translates well into mass production.

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