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Jul 8, 2009 | Posted by: roboblogger

Light-absorbing nanowires may make better solar panels

Full story: Stanford News Service

A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers has built upon his work to potentially improve a means of harvesting energy from the sun.

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