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...researchers are also exploring the capabilities and limitations of black silicon, while Mazur’s company SiOnyx is working on prototypes of practical applications of the material...
Mazur’s team is currently seeking to expand silicon’s absorption range even further—a task that requires a better understanding of how the sulfur gases affect the silicon and transform it into black silicon...
...Black silicon has practical applications, such as cameras and night vision goggles, but Kenneth C. Hammond ’12—who works in Mazur’s lab—hopes to create more efficient solar cells with the new substance...
Though regular silicon does “a fairly good job” of absorbing the solar spectrum, black silicon is able to absorb a much greater percentage, and Hammond said researchers hypothesize that black silicon could create a more efficient solar cell...
...Harvard researchers had discovered black silicon by accident while Mazur was researching the properties of platinum and semi-conductors. Mazur had arbitrarily chosen silicon to study—a random vial of sulfur later, black silicon was born...