solar cell
Noun
Meaning
a cell that converts solar energy into electrical energy
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About solar manufacturing business, it said the company has established India’s largest solar cell and module manufacturing unit in Mundra SEZ.
A working solar cell, of low efficiency, was constructed by Charles Fritts in 1883 using a metal plate coated with selenium and a thin layer of gold; the device became commercially useful in photographic light meters in the 1930s.
Dr. Mathias Uller Rothmann from the Department of Physics, University of Oxford, explains, "This is the final step on the way to being able to image, and thus understand, these important solar cell materials at the most fundamental, atomic level.
A solar cell is a device that converts light directly into electricity using the photoelectric effect.
An organic solar cell is a device that uses organic electronics to convert light into electricity.
If his panels work, they could keep generating power without the need to store excess electricity in solar cell batteries or relying on fossil fuel-run power grids.