42.8% Efficiency: A New Record for Solar Cells (TreeHugger)

42.8% Efficiency: A New Record for Solar Cells (TreeHugger): "Narrowly edging out the previous record set by Spectrolab late last year, two scientists at the University of Delaware have just created a new device that can convert 42.8% of the light striking it into electricity. The solar cell, built by Christina Honsberg and Allan Barnett, splits light into three components — high, medium and low energy light — and directs it to several different materials which can then extract electrons out of its photons."