Boffin boosts solar cell size 100-fold Nano technology makes things bigger Ian Williams, vnunet.com 08 Jan 2008 A researcher at Israel's Bar-Ilan University has created a solar cell 100 times bigger than previous designs using nano-based methods. Professor Arie Zaban, head of the university's Nanotechnology Institute, had already developed a method of using metallic wires mounted on conductive glass to form the basis of solar cells. This method produces electricity with an efficiency similar to that of conventional silicon-based cells, but which are much cheaper to produce. Professor Zaban has now expanded this concept by developing a solar cell measuring...