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The Researchers at MSU Are Using Ultraviolet Light To Generate Electricity In Their Transparent Solar Panels

A Michigan State University research team has created a transparent solar cell capable of generating electricity.

Most solar cells made today capture visible light, but these new cells capture light in the ultraviolet range.

Then the concentrator  converts it into another colorless infrared wavelength and sends it to the edge of the concentrator, where photovoltaic solar cells convert light energy to electricity.

Professor Richard Lunt, MSU assistant professor who headed the research, believes that the panel can be employed in a wide variety of settings.

“It can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e-reader. Ultimately we want to make solar harvesting surfaces that you do not even know are there,” Lunt said in a MSU press release.

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