ON THE desk of Chris Case, chief technology officer of Oxford Photovoltaics, there sits a small but heavy vial filled with a canary-yellow liquid. "That's enough for a kilowatt," he says. The material in the vial is called methylammonium lead iodide, and enthusiasts such as Dr Case believe it, and materials like it--known collectively as perovskites--could lead to a dramatic increase in the world's use of power from the sun. Oxford Photovoltaics is one of many firms, both small and large, that s...
ON THE desk of Chris Case, chief technology officer of Oxford Photovoltaics, there sits a small but heavy vial filled with a canary-yellow liquid. "That's enough for a kilowatt," he says. The material in the vial is called methylammonium lead iodide, and enthusiasts such as Dr Case believe it, and materials like it--known collectively as perovskites--could lead to a dramatic increase in the world's use of power from the sun. Oxford Photovoltaics is one of many firms, both small and large, that s...
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