solar cell

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And he saw this as a chance to bring in researchers—Shockley, Gerald Pearson, John Pierce and others—who later worked on the transistor, the solar cell and the first communications satellite.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

But as local competition grew in China, Jetter decided to license some of his company's technology for solar cell processing to a local Chinese company, rather than selling directly to Chinese-owned firms.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

Putting data centers into Earth orbit powered by a large solar cell array would give the chips 24-hour access to the sun’s energy if the satellite is in what is called sun-synchronous orbit.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2025

In their work, now published in Nature, Lang and colleagues combine two emerging solar cell technologies, namely perovskite and organic solar cells, that both are processed at low temperatures with a low carbon footprint.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

Something I can leave behind with a single solar cell.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir