Blu-ray Discs get repurposed to improve solar cells

Polymer imprinted with movies' etchings captures more sunlight

Microscope image of a Blu-ray Disc

LIGHT-FETCHING PATTERN  Bumps and pits that encode data on a Blu-ray Disc, seen here in a false-color microscope image, can be imprinted on solar cells to improve light absorption, a new study shows.

Jiaxing Huang

Using Blu-ray Discs to watch movies is so 2006.