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Jan Seidel and Seung-Yeul Yang, DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Caption: Jan Seidel (left) and Seung-Yeul Yang were the lead authors of a paper describing a new mechanism for the photovoltaic effect in semiconductor thin-films that overcomes previous bandgap voltage limitations.

Credit: Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab Public Affairs

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