Despite its thinness, these panels generate 1,000 times more electric current than regular silicon-based solar panels.
These could help reduce the material waste used to make solar technology, which requires various rare Earth minerals to produce.
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At Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, a group of scientists has developed a new kind of solar panel built from a special combination of crystals, stacked together in layers only 200 nanometres thick.
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Despite its thinness, these panels generate 1,000 times more electric current than regular silicon-based solar panels.
These could help reduce the material waste used to make solar technology, which requires various rare Earth minerals to produce.
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