Finding better materials for solar cells

Research by MIT scientists and students could lead to cheaper and more efficient solar cells, either by incorporating materials that are so abundant that they could support a major boom in the industry or by cutting production costs for conventional solar cells.When there’s more energy radiating down on the planet than there is radiating back out to spacesomething’s going to have to heat up

• ⇒Sleek new MIT solar car heads to the races
• ⇒Finding better materials for solar cells
• ⇒Boosting the power of solar cells
• ⇒Magnetic fields record the early histories of planets
• ⇒MIT Museum glows with promise of future energy