Scientists Use Lego Technology to Make More Efficient Solar Panels

Mimicking the iconic design of Lego blocks, an international team of scientists discovered a better way to harvest the sun's energy.

Researchers from Imperial College London and collaborators in Belgium, China and Japan created 22% more efficient solar panels by covering their surface with tiny aluminum studs, which are invisible to the naked eye. Under a microscope, however, the grooved surface of one of these panels actually resembles a Lego block

Nicholas Hylton, a research associate for Imperial College's physics department, is the lead author of the study which Scientific Reports published earlier this month Read more...