SOLAR 1 (IMAGE)

Rice University

SOLAR 1

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Rice University engineers designed and built windowpanes that redirect sunlight or illumination from indoors to edge-band solar cells. The central layer is a conjugated polymer that serves as a waveguide.

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Yilin Li/Rice University

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