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Title: Michigan Researchers Create 'Optical Battery'
Post by: Trino Cularoid on June 19, 2011, 05:32:13 AM
Quote from: ECNmag.comA dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional semiconductor-based solar cells. The researchers found a way to make an "optical battery," said Stephen Rand, a professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Physics and Applied Physics.

In the process, they overturned a century-old tenet of physics.

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• http://www.ecnmag.com/news/2011/06/research/optical-battery.aspx
• http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1063/1.3561505
• http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1063/1.3595637