Scientists develop mega-thin solar cells that could be shockingly easy to produce: ‘As rapid as printing a newspaper’

If it's shockingly easy to produce then just do it and then you can write a declarative headline that doesn't need to use the word "could". If you can't then I'm guessing it's not that shockingly easy.

"mega-thin"? Is that like "micro-large"?

Pepperidge Farm remembers when journalists had a grasp of the language.

This kind of affordable tech has been promised as "about to hit the market" since 2003. I'll believe it when I see it on the market.

This has its own applications but I can't say I've ever heard anyone complain about thickness of solar panels. Efficiency, power generated, etc. Sure.

AFAIK this was previously developed about 5 years ago in Australia at the University of Newcastle Engineering Dept.

Not sure why this lot n the US is claiming credit for it.

https://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom/featured/public-debut-for-printed-solar

Man, y'all a bunch a grumpies.

This technology doesn't hinge on what we here believe or predict. It will happen or it won't.

We could speculate on how cool it would be, and how it could be used if it happens, instead of pooh-poohing it.

I'll believe it when I see it.

You guys realize that this is a significant step towards having moving pictures like in Harry Potter right?

And then we never heard of this miracle technology again

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I would imagine it could only be useful for 30 minutes before the cell would be unusable. Arent solar cells just P-N junctions where if it is really thin it would just run out of holes to fill?

Edit: why am I being downvoted? To my limited understanding from my electrochemistry courses from 10 years ago, photovoltaics depend on the density. Theres only a limited amount of free electrons and only a limited number of free holes. The thinner the material the less likely an electron hole can get filled with whatever N-doped semiconductor used.

What? Newspapers not rapid. They are printed only once per day because of all the writing and editing that's required. Do it any faster and you'll end up with lot's of typos and factual errors.