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The process of making solar cells just got simpler, more effective, and less expensive. Researchers from UC Berkeley and DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have found a special substance that could be utilized to make solar cells more easily, the team stated. This material, which has been described earlier this year in the journal Science Advances, is a crystalline solar material with an embedded electric field, also referred to as "ferroelectricity." This breakthrough makes it possible to produce solar cell devices that are more effective, less expensive, and easier to make. How it works Solar cells are necessary for solar panels to convert solar energy into electricity. For these solar cells to distinguish between positive and negative charges, an elect...

Do you recall the solar panels created by Prof. Paul Dastoor of the University of New Castle and his team using a 3D printer? If you don't, it's a timeless tale worth remembering. Let's get started... The energy business can benefit greatly from 3D printing. Dastoor and his colleagues invented lightweight, ultra-flexible, recyclable, and low-cost solar panels four years ago. The University of Newcastle was one of only three facilities worldwide that tested printed solar, which employed electronic inks to conduct energy. "It's not like a typical solar cell at all." "They are often enormous, hefty, and enclosed in glass that is tens of millimeters thick," Dastoor told Mashable. "We're printing them on less than 0.1-millimeter thick plastic film." "Because there have been so few of th...

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A novel ferroelectric and lead-free substance may transform the production of solar cells.

3D-printed solar cells are less expensive, easier to fabricate, and can be deployed quickly.