solar cells

1. Devices, usually made of semiconductors, that convert sunlight directly into electric current (see also current). Solar cells power artificial satellites and are often used in remote locations of the Earth.

At present, solar cells are too expensive and inefficient to be used for commercial generation of electricity.

Example Sentences

That discovery transformed physics and led to technologies such as solar cells and electron microscopes.

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Already, scientists have used quantum computers to identify materials that could make solar cells more efficient, simulate Airbus’s aircraft performance and optimize power grids.

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Semiconductors, which form the foundation of modern computer chips and solar cells, could operate far faster and more efficiently if they also possessed superconducting abilities.

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The results were transistors, solar cells, lasers, fax machines and cellphone networks.

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In technology, managing how electrons move and interact underpins everything from electronic circuits and AI systems to solar cells and quantum computers.

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