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Progress in Developing Clean, Cheap and Sustainable Energy through Solar Power
Dr. Zetian Mi's is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan who is focused on the investigation of semiconductor nanostructures and their application in electronic, photonic, clean energy, and quantum devices and systems.
A new kind of solar panel, developed at the U-M, has achieved 9% efficiency in converting water into hydrogen and oxygen—mimicking a crucial step in natural photosynthesis. Outdoors, it represents a major leap in technology, nearly 10 times more efficient than previous solar water-splitting experiments of its…
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