Major advance in solar cells made from cheap, easy-to-use perovskite

Berkeley News ^ | NOVEMBER 7, 2016 | Robert Sanders

[RegulatorCountry]

Ah, stupid auto-correct, or maybe it’s me for leaving it on.

Multlane = multizone

[nathanbedford]

Thanks for the education, and the photo.

I guess I had always thought that the difference between silicone and silicon was simply a matter of regional pronunciation. I refer to the pronunciation because I dictate my replies and I simply dictated "silicone" and kept blithely on ignorant of what I was missing out on.

[TXnMA]

You're welcome -- but, as I said, I was mostly trying to lighten up an otherwise blah MLK Day...

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However, I must admit that one of my patents involved mounting a micromachined silicon pressure sensor chip with screen-printed siliconE rubber -- onto an alumina ceramic substrate with thin film aluminum metal conductors on it.

With my Texian drawl, my presentations on the subject were so confusing that I adopted the British "aluminIum" pronunciation for the metal -- and borrowed my Massachusetts colleages' "twang" for the semiconductor -- and pronounced it as they did: "silicAHn".

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But I bailed out of MA -- back to God's Country -- before I started

"...driving my HondER AccAHd to a pAHty -- where I pAHked my cAH. in the yAHd..."

LOL!!

[TXnMA]

FReepMail for you...

[theBuckwheat]

A solar flare induces a distinctly different pulse in wiring than does the EMP from a chemical or nuclear explosion. The rise time of the voltage induced by a solar event would be so slow that normal diodes could protect a PV solar cell from damage.