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Toward Manufacturing Semitransparent Solar Cells the Size of Windows

Viewed through the semi-transparent solar cells, the cherries on the tree are clearly defined. The new manufacturing process could enable meter-scale electricity-producing windows. Credit: Xinjing Huang, Optoelectronic Components and Materials Group, University of Michigan.

In an important step toward bringing transparent solar cells to home windows, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a way to manufacture their highly efficient and semitransparent solar cells.

“In principle, we can now scale semitransparent organic solar cells to two meters by two meters, which brings our windows much closer to reality,” said Stephen Forrest, the Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and corresponding author of a study published in Joule.

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