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Groundbreaking barium titanate solar panels are 1000x more powerful than existing panels (www.thebrighterside.news)
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Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have discovered a new method to increase the efficiency of solar cells by a factor of 1,000. The team of scientists achieved this breakthrough by creating crystalline layers of barium titanate, strontium titanate, and calcium titanate, which were alternately placed on top of one another in a lattice structure.

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[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"The result surprised even the research group: compared to pure barium titanate of a similar thickness, the current flow was up to 1,000 times stronger..."

so this offers the possibility of barium titanate PV cells that may be marginally more efficient and less expensive than existing silicon PV cells.

seems to be another "in a few years" tech that, while welcome, probably does not deserve the clickbait headline.