Transparent Solar Panels Will Turn Windows Into Green Energy Collectors

A transparent luminescent solar concentrator that selectively harvests NIR photons is demonstrated. “These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications,” said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).

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