Thursday, July 6, 2017

Self-powered system makes smart windows smarter

07/06/2017 06:40 PM EDT

Graduate student Nicholas Davy holds a sample of the special window glass

Researchers developed a new type of smart window: A self-powered version that promises to be inexpensive and easy to apply to existing windows, with potential to save heating and cooling costs. The window powers itself with a transparent solar cell that harvests near-ultraviolet light.


Full story at http://www.princeton.edu/engineering/news/archive/?id=17950

Source
Princeton University, Engineering School


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