Keep Your Eye on the Buckyball, Because Organic Solar Cell Technology is on the Rise – Quinn Burlingame, Ph.D. – Loo Group, Princeton University; Andaluca Technologies
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Quinn Burlingame, Ph.D., is an organic photovoltaic researcher and postdoctoral fellow in chemical sciences with the Loo Group at Princeton University. He joins us today to discuss recent advances in technology for organic semiconductors and solar cells. While the use of carbon and hydrocarbon-based materials for organic solar electricity is still a research-based technology, Burlingame reports that they are seeing rapid improvements in its efficiency and anticipates that it will soon be comparable with the more traditional silicon-based solar cells. Furthermore, the ability to make organic solar cells lightweight, flexible, and even transparent will open access to niches that aren't possible for silicon, such as use in windows.
Click play to hear more. Visit Burlingame's Twitter page @QuinnBurlingame and be sure to check out Andluca Technologies at https://andluca.com.
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| 1:10.3 | Berlin Game. We're going to be talking about a semiconductor breakthrough that could be a game |
| 1:14.8 | changer for organic solar cells. So Quinn, thanks for coming. How you doing? |
| 1:18.9 | Yeah, great to be Richard. Things are going well. Well good. |
| 1:23.0 | Tell me a little bit about your background and then why are the focus on solar cells in these |
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