Concentrating the Sun's light

Researchers at Imperial College London claim that they have set a new record for concentrating the Sun's light on to a solar cell with the aid of a transparent polymer plate.

They think that their solar concentrator sheets may help develop a technology that can result in vastly improved solar power capabilities at much cheaper cost. Amanda Chatten, from Imperial College London, says that the novel LSC has a power conversion efficiency of 7.1 per cent, which is about 0.4 per cent higher than the previous official record-holder.

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