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Xinjing Huang, a PhD student in applied physics, demonstrates the semi-transparent view through the solar cell. The new manufacturing process could enable meter-scale electricity-producing windows. Photo Credit: Silvia Cardarelli, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan.

An important step toward bringing transparent solar cells to home windows

Xinjing Huang, a PhD student in applied physics, demonstrates the semi-transparent view through the solar

Power-generating windows get solar cells with 30-year lifetimes

Xinjing Huang, a doctoral student in Forrest’s lab, holds a solar cell module with 40%

Making plastic conductive while also making it more transparent – think solar windows

Jay Guo holds a sheet of flexible transparent conductor on the University of Michigan’s College

Inexpensive double-pane solar windows made with low-cost quantum dots

Engineered quantum dots could bring down the cost of solar electricity Using two types of

Switchable solar window

Demonstration device dynamically responds to sunlight by transforming from transparent to tinted while converting sunlight