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CIO August 15, 2002 Justine Brown	Portable Plastic Power What if you could power portable electronics anywhere you could access solar energy? That's the scenario two researchers at the University of California at Berkeley imagined when they developed a new generation of solar cells that combine nanotechnology with plastic electronics.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2006 Dan Bloom	Is the Price of Power Getting You Down? Nanotechnology may dramatically lower solar cell production costs. Investors, take note.
IEEE Spectrum July 2007 Suhas Sreedhar	Plastic Solar Cells Get a Boost by Doubling Up Scientists in Korea and California have invented a new way of boosting the efficiency of cheap plastic solar cells, making them more competitive with traditional silicon solar cells. The key is to make the solar cells in pairs.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2007 Jack Uldrich	Veeco Wants Some CIGS Veeco Instruments stands to benefit from the solar industry's transition to CIGS-enhanced thin-film solar cells. This may be a company to keep an eye on.
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The Motley Fool February 28, 2008 Jack Uldrich	Solar's Long-Term Forecast Is Sunny Since the beginning of the year, solar stocks have gone bone-chillingly cold. But, a rough start to 2008 doesn't diminish the sector's long-term potential.
IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Dave Levitan	The Solar Efficiency Gap Companies continue to push solar-cell efficiency records toward theoretical limits. Are actual production-line solar panels keeping up?
Chemistry World April 18, 2013 Yuandi Li	Reducing the cost of perovskite solar cells A new way of making semiconducting perovskite-based solar cells could result in photovoltaic devices that are 70% cheaper than current commercial models, say UK scientists.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006	Emcore Wins DARPA Contract for Very High Efficiency Solar Cell Program Engineers at the Emcore Corp. Photovoltaic division are developing advanced III-V multijunction solar cells for phase one of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's solar cell program.
The Motley Fool December 4, 2007 Toby Shute	A Sharp Elbow to Your Solar Stock Sharp Corporation, the world's leading solar cell maker, just broke ground on a gigantic manufacturing complex that will primarily produce large-screen LCD panels, and 1,000 megawatts of thin-film solar cells.
Chemistry World September 26, 2014 Tim Wogan	Perovskite solar cells show hydrogen production promise A new, highly efficient process for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen has been demonstrated by researchers in Switzerland.
Chemistry World April 4, 2010 Simon Hadlington	New electrolyte for dye-based solar cells Researchers have moved a step closer to overcoming one of the key hurdles to developing low-cost solar cells based on dye-coated titanium dioxide.
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Chemistry World June 27, 2011 Catherine Bacon	A Step Forward for Space Power US scientists have gained insights into how to improve polymer solar cells' stability in space to power shuttles.
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National Defense August 2006 Robert H. Williams	Portable Power Offered in Small Package Global Star has just introduced a 25-watt, 12-volt flexible, foldable solar panel that is water resistant and friendly to the environment.
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Chemistry World February 26, 2009 Nina Notman	Analysis hints at solar energy alternatives Materials such as iron sulfide, copper sulfide and copper oxide could trump today's silicon solar cells in terms of cost, and in terms of rapid production at the scale needed for solar cells.
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IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Neil Savage	Electronics on Anything Chemical trick puts solar cells and other electronics on rice paper, Saran wrap, and more practical things, too
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Chemistry World January 31, 2007 Ned Stafford	Making Light Work The photovoltaic industry is nearing a breakthrough point, beyond which production capacity will soar, offering consumers a wide variety of options at much lower prices.
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Chemistry World August 8, 2011 Rebecca Brodie	A Solar Torch to Fit in Your Back Pocket A solar powered torch the size of a credit card has been developed by a team of scientists from Denmark, the Netherlands and the US.
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