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Solar cells on curtains

Nature Materials volume 7, pages 835–836 (2008)Cite this article

Crystalline silicon solar cell arrays on flexible, transparent substrates may lead to unconventional new applications.

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of a flexible photovoltaic device based on crystalline silicon micro-cells.

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  1. Zhiyong Fan and Ali Javey are in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, and in the Materials Sciences Division, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. ajavey@eecs.berkeley.edu,

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Fan, Z., Javey, A. Solar cells on curtains. Nature Mater 7, 835–836 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2312

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