Posted Jun 11, 2010, 3:41 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=18671
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Original Solar Cell Inventor Scores $1.07M Millennium Prize
Tiffany Kaiser
Scientist and professor of photonics and interfaces at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Michael Graetzel, won the Millennium Technology Prize of $1.07 million for his dye-sensitized solar cells, also known as "Graetzel cells."
These new dye-sensitized solar cells are low in cost, and can work on a broad scale. Graetzel cells do not require a large setup to manufacture, they should be considerably less expensive than solid-state cell designs in bulk, they're mechanically robust and can be engineered into flexible sheets. They also require no protection from minor elements such as tree strikes or hail.
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