Sarah McDonnell

MIT

Video Podcast: Secrets of Rock Star CFO's

Video Podcast: Secrets of Rock Star CFO's

After reviewing Secrets of Rock Star CFOs, a report provided by Oracle Netsuite, Manufacturing.net editors David Mantey and Jeff Reinke recorded a unique, podcast-style video breaking down the paper.

The MIT team has achieved the thinnest and lightest complete solar cells ever made, they say. To demonstrate just how thin and lightweight the cells are, the researchers draped a working cell on top of a soap bubble, without popping the bubble.

Solar Cells as Light as a Soap Bubble

Imagine solar cells so thin, flexible, and lightweight that they could be placed on almost any material or surface.

This is a view inside the Alcator C-Mod tokamak.

Researchers May Have Found Key to Making Fusion Work

In a result so surprising that the researchers themselves found it hard to believe their own results, it turns out that turbulence can account for the mysterious mismatch between theory and experimental results.