Transparent solar panels

may be a window into the future

Who did it?

• Developed by Yimu Zhao, Garrett A. Meek, Benjamin G. Levine and Richard R. Lunt.

"Light Harvesting: Near-Infrared

Harvesting Transparent

Luminescent Solar Concentrators,"

How does it work?

Applications

"No one wants to sit behind colored glass, It makes

for a very colorful environment, like

working in a disco.”

Applications

Reference

GEEK, Transparent solar panels may be a window into the future by Kevin Ohannessian, August 20 2014

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/13575/20140820/transparent-solar-panel-cell-michigan-state-university.htm

Tech Times, Go solar with a view using newly developed transparent cells by Jim Algar, August 20 2014

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/13615/20140820/go-solar-with-a-view-using-newly-developed-transparent-

cells.htm"Light Harvesting: Near-Infrared Harvesting Transparent

Luminescent Solar Concentrators" in the jpurnal Advanced Optical Materials, July 2014