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Contact: Lee Siegel
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University of Utah
Caption: University of Utah mechanical engineers Dinesh Rakwal and Eberhard Bamberg watch as an electrified molybdenum wire cuts a thin wafer of germanium semiconductor, which is used in a solar power cells. Their new cutting technique promises to reduce the cost of the most efficient type of solar power cell.
Credit: Sumet Heamawatanachai, University of Utah.
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