Researchers in Germany have modified standard solar cell designs so that they can be made from cheaper materials. That could be important, because price has long been a major obstacle to wider use of photovoltaics.
Typically in commercial solar cells, photons from the sun jolt electrons loose from chemical bonds in a layer of silicon several hundred micrometers thick.
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