Team proves new way to produce silicon wires

摘要

Researchers at MIT and Penn State have announced a simple, inexpensive way to produce silicon wires in quantity in a highly controlled way that could be scaled up to an industrial-scale process - promising to enable novel sensor, battery, and solar-cell applications. For example, silicon microwires can be used for the production of solar cells that can harvest much more sunlight for a given amount of material than a traditional solar cell made from a thin wafer of silicon crystal.