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Cheap solar cell inventor wins Finnish tech award

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The inventor of a new type of solar cell won the Finnish state and industry-funded Millennium Technology Prize, the prize's foundation said on Wednesday.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The inventor of a new type of solar cell won the Finnish state and industry-funded Millennium Technology Prize, the prize's foundation said on Wednesday.

Michael Graetzel's dye-sensitized solar cells, known as "Graetzel cells," could be a significant contributor to the future energy technologies due to their excellent price-performance ratio, the Helsinki-based Millennium Prize Foundation said.

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