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Materials for energy

Materials for energy

Seeing through a glass, darkly

21 Nov 2018
This article first appeared in the 2018 Physics World Focus on Energy Technologies

Windows that transform solar energy into electricity without plunging the rooms behind them into semi-darkness might sound too good to be true, but new techniques could yet make solar windows a common element in future urban architecture, as Sam Jarman explains

Bright idea: UbiQD’s quantum-dot-based solar windows direct energy from sunlight into solar cells placed along their edges. (Image courtesy: UbiQD)
Back in 2010 Oxford PV was a small start-up with a big dream: it wanted to pioneer the market in sol

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Sam Jarman is a freelance science journalist based in Surrey, UK
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