Researchers discover way to make solar cells more efficient

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This research finding could be used in the future to help

Wyoming farmers and ranchers access electric power in remote areas important to the state to aid crops and livestock, to boosting the use of  in big cities, such as Los Angeles, in an effort to reduce smog there.
Jinke Tang and Yuri Dahnovsky, both UW professors in the Department of Physics and Astronomy; TeYu Chien, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy; and Wenyong Wang, an associate professor of physics and astronomy, co-wrote a research paper, which was published in Applied Physics Letters last fall. The paper, titled "Giant Photocurrent Enhancement by Transition Metal Doping in Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells," was recently spotlighted again, in April, by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
The research was funded by the DOE, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, as part of the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Program.
"They usually highlight the research funded by them," Chien says. "They pick key achievements and highlight them."
The Office of Basic Energy Sciences supports fundamental research to understand, predict and, ultimately, control matter and  at the electronic, atomic and molecular levels to provide the foundations for  and to support DOE missions in energy, environment and national security.


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