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New Tin-based Solar Cells Trap Heat 1,000 Times Longer, Could Beat 33% Limit

New Tin-based Solar Cells Trap Heat 1,000 Times Longer, Could Beat 33% Limit
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Could this push solar cell efficiency beyond the theoretical 33% limit? Interesting Engineering reports: Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that tin-based perovskite solar cells can slow heat loss from high-energy "hot electrons..." When sunlight strikes a panel, photons jump-start electrons into action. The most energetic photons create super-charged hot electrons... [but] in fractions of a trillionth of a second, these high-energy particles rapidly cool, du

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