Posts tagged: photonics

Original Solar Cell Inventor Scores $1.07M Millennium Prize

“Graetzel cells” could advance the renewable energy revolution

Scientist and professor of photonics and interfaces at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, Michael Graetzel, won the Millennium Technology Prize of $1.07 million for his dye-sensitized solar cells, also known as “Graetzel cells.”
These new dye-sensitized solar cells are low in cost, and can work on a broad scale. Graetzel cells [...]