Hybrid Nanomaterial Potential For New Generation Solar Cell Technology

Physics team demonstrates new power generation technique with a hybrid nanomaterial
Copper sulfide nanoparticles and single-walled carbon nanotubes help increase efficiency whilst also reducing costs.
"In lab tests, the new thin-film structure showed increases by as much at 80 percent in light absorption when compared to single-walled nanotube thin-film devices alone, making it a more efficient generator."

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Carbon Nanotubes may be Next Big Thing in computer chips

Made in IBM Labs: Researchers Demonstrate Initial Steps toward Commercial Fabrication of Carbon Nanotubes as a Successor to Silicon | InterNano - a project of the National Nanomanufacturing Network

If this works out we may have to call them nano(-scale-)chips.


Image source; Rice University.

Source: IBM News Room