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The idea of producing electricity from sunlight is attractive, but in practice the technology to do so is expensive. A new device, moving away from the traditional silicon design, shows promise.

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Figure 1: The structure and conversion process of McFarland and Tang's photovoltaic device1.

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Grätzel, M. Solar cells to dye for. Nature 421, 586–587 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/421586a

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