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Dr Ned Ekins-Daukes, a researcher from Imperial’s Department of Physics and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, leads an exhibition about new generation ‘nano-structured’ millimetre-sized solar cells at the Science Museum this week.
The cutting edge solar cells could convert the sun’s energy to electricity more than twice as efficiently as current technology.
Visitors to the exhibit will be able to play at being solar power engineers, and use prisms to see how much electrical power can be generated by the different colours within the spectrum of light.
Dr Ekins-Daukes and his colleagues will be on hand to talk to visitors about solar energy in more detail.
The event takes place in the Science Museum’s Antenna gallery from 11.00 – 13.00 and 14.00 – 16.00 on Tuesday 18, Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 August 2009.
More information about the Antenna gallery can be found here: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/antenna/
More information about Dr Ekins-Daukes’ exhibit can be found here: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_30-6-2009-12-20-16