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Peel-and-stick solar cells add more than flexibility

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Unlike their stiff, inflexible cousins, new peel-and-stick thin-film solar cells can be peeled off like Band-Aids and stuck to virtually any surface, from paper to windowpanes. Standard thin-film photovoltaic (PV) cells require direct fabrication on the final carrier substrate, but the peel-and-stick ones developed at Stanford University in California do not, avoiding all the challenges associated with putting solar cells on unconventional materials and vastly expanding the potential applications of solar technology. Thin-film PV cells traditionally are fixed on rigid silicon and...Read full article

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    Published: March 2013
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    thin-film solar cell
    A solar cell that is lightweight and flexible because of its construction by vacuum deposition of a semiconductor material (e.g., gallium arsenide or cadmium sulfide) onto a thin metal or plastic substrate. It is used as a power source in spacecraft because of its light weight.
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