This fully transparent solar cell could make every window and screen a power source

        April 20, 2015 Extreme Tech | United States | renewables: solar

An MIT startup has designed a transparent solar cell to let visible light through yet harvest IR and UV via a transparent luminescent solar concentrator (TLSC). Organic salts absorb non-visible IR and UV that luminesce as IR, which is then guided to edge strips to convert into electricity. The rest is transparent. 10% efficiency is expected (currently 1%).