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The thin, all-transparent solar panels can work as invisible generators for a number of electronic devices.
Depiction of the transparent solar cell (left), and the cell in action (right). Image credits: Nguyen et al (2020) / Journal of Power Sources.
Solar photovoltaics are the fastest-growing electricity source in the world, producing 2% of the world’s energy, up from a mere afterthought just a few years ago. Nowadays, most commercial solar panels have an efficiency between 15 and 20%, although outliers do exist on both sides of this range.
But in most cases, you can’t really use solar panels for electronics because of a very simple reason: they’re not transparent.