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'Invisible wires' could boost solar-cell efficiency
Vijay Narasimhan explains how he and colleagues in the Yi Cui Group at Stanford University discovered how to hide metal wires in solar cells and funnel light directly to the semiconductor below. The new technique has the potential to improve the relative efficiency of solar cells by 10 percent.
Stanford team finishes in top 10 in 2015 World Solar Challenge
STANFORD SOLAR CAR PROJECT FINISHES 6th IN WORLD SOLAR CHALLENGE
Trailer- "Stanford Solar Car Project: Racing on Sunshine"
Introduction to Energy@Stanford & SLAC
Zhi-Xun Shen received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1989, M.S. from Rutgers University in 1985, and B.S from Fudan University in 1983.
Climate Change Science
Chris Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, Professor of Biology and Environmental Earth System Science at Stanford University, and Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Field’s research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale. His work includes major field experiments on responses of California grassland to multi-factor global change, integrative studies on the global carbon cycle, and assessments of impacts of climate change on agriculture.
