Solar energy looks to be one of the best growing forms of renewables. Its demand has been growing rapidly and driving the world toward a low-carbon future. This has prompted tremendous innovation in the field and brought panels with groundbreaking efficiencies like perovskite solar cells, solar tiles and roofs, and organic panels. But what if we can harvest solar energy from the windows and skylights of our homes, skyscrapers, or even car windows?
A new innovation from Tohoku university in japan is one step closer to making that possible.
Here comes windows that can generate power from the sun.
Transparent solar cells, which have the potential to convert windows, greenhouses, glass panels of smart devices, and more into energy harvesting devices, have taken another step toward becoming a reality.
A team of scientists from the Tohoku University in Japan has created a near-invisible solar cell using indium tin oxide (ITO) as a transparent electrode and tungsten disulfide (WS2) as a photoactive layer.
Remarkably, the team was able to achieve transparency of 79 percent on the solar cell and can help take the transition metal dichalcogenides or TMD-based near-invisible solar cells from laboratory-only development to industrialized quantities.
