New Material Can Create Glowing Solar Cells

Mar-28-14 Using a new material called Perovskite, researchers have developed a solar panel able to emit light as well as covert the light to electricity.

The material's capabilities were discovered a bit by accident when a physicist from Nanyang Technological University shone a laser light on a hybrid Perovskite solar cell material. The solar cell glowed brightly in response to the laser beam, which is unusual for solar cell material. The team also discovered that, by altering the composition of the material, they could cause it to glow in a wide range of colors.

The material's capabilities could lend the glowing solar cells to an array of applications, including tinted glass windows able to generate electricity, solar power-harnessing billboards or light displays for malls and office buildings.

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