A New Adaptive Material Could Halve the Cost of Solar Power

Ron Czapala

http://gizmodo.com/a-new-adaptive-material-could-halve-the-cost-of-solar-p-1613204859

Solar power is one of the most reliable forms of renewable power—but it's still expensive. Now, a team has developed a smart, adaptive material that could slash the its cost in half.
...the new material has optical properties that can change to help it capture as much light as possible
...a kind of coating for use in a solar cell which focuses light into a piece of glass

mklrobo

:nerd: I appreciate the heads up on teh new solar cells. I wonder, what are they made out of?...:blank:

Ron Czapala

mklrobo wrote: »

:nerd: I appreciate the heads up on teh new solar cells. I wonder, what are they made out of?...:blank:

"...an embedded liquid layer provides passive and automatic optical alignment to the incident sunlight"

Wonder what "liquid"

http://www.glintphotonics.com/#!technology/c7mg