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To come up with a way to do something 1,000 times faster than it had been done in the past, you have to count on some serendipity — not to mention hard work, collaboration and good timing. Such was the case with three scientists from the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who somewhat accidentally developed a way to assess the quality of solar cells at a speed that is orders of magnitude faster than had been done before.
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