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Saving silicon

An innovative approach to making silicon solar cells more cost-effective and robust has now entered mass production. Nature Photonics took a trip to Kyoto, Japan, to find out more.

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Saving silicon. Nature Photon 1, 558–559 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2007.179

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