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Los Alamos National Laboratory: Efficient, 'Green' Quantum-Dot Solar Cells Exploit Defects
May 19, 2020
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, May 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release:

Novel quantum dot solar cells developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory match the efficiency of existing quantum-dot based devices, but without lead or other toxic elements that most solar cells of this type rely on.

"This quantum-dot approach shows great promise for a new type of toxic-element-free, inexpensive solar cells that . . .

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