The first fully transparent solar cell harnesses wavelengths of light that are invisible to the human eye in order to generate power.

A UCLA team has designed a new kind of polymer solar cell (PSC) that produces energy by absorbing infrared light, not visible light, and are better than 66% transparent to the human eye ...

Transparent solar cells could replace traditional glass components in smartphones and tablets, enabling self-charging gadgets that eliminate the need for external power sources.

Ubiquitous Energy and Michigan State University researchers have created a fully transparent solar concentrator, which could turn any window or sheet of glass (like your smartphone's screen) into ...

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A new design for a semi-transparent plastic solar cell may be an important step toward the advance of building-integrated photovoltaics.

The results? These transparent solar cells achieved a power density of 13 milliwatts per square centimeter—on par with traditional, opaque panels—and an average visible transparency of 79%.

Ubiquitous Energy is making transparent solar power cells a reality in consumer tech applications like wearable gadgets, phones and smart windows.

Semi-transparent perovskite solar cells have been created that demonstrate high-power conversion efficiency and transmit visible light while blocking infrared light, making them great candidates ...

Researchers working at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have created inexpensive, semi-transparent, high-efficiency perovskite solar cells with graphene electrodes.

News from the Far East: Japan's National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) has built a prototype boron nitride solar cell. Boron nitride (BN) is one of that interesting class of materials that ...