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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Anthony Cuthbertson

Scientists achieve ‘impossible’ solar efficiency in renewables breakthrough

Researchers in Japan have developed a new material that allows solar cells to generate an amount of energy from sunlight that was previously thought impossible.

The discovery, made by a team at Kyushu University, involves a special “spin-flip” emitter that can harvest energy from the Sun that is typically lost as heat.

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