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NEWS ARTICLE: Technology, Bright Ideas
Forbes.com
Elizabeth Corcoran
Publication Date: 11/24/03
A handful of young companies are producing new ways
to harness solar energy. The sun never shines in the
basement laboratory on the University of California,
Berkeley campus, where graduate students Delia Milliron
and Ilan Gur spend their days. But that isn't stopping
them from doing some of today's most advanced work in
solar-cell technology.
In one corner of the lab Gur brews toxic ingredients
to make a half-vial of crystals, each measuring a millionth
or so of an inch, of cadmium selenide, a light-sensitive
semiconductor. Read
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