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Blue Ghost operated for two weeks as designed, finally losing power when the sun set on March 16, depleting its solar cells of their power source.—Brett Tingley, Space.com, 24 June 2025 Shockley, for instance, worked at Bell Labs, a mid-century hub that invented the modern solar cell and the first portable operating system.—S. C. Cornell, New Yorker, 16 June 2025 And now, scientists have shown how lunar regolith can be turned into solar cells.—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2025 The global metals company Umicore recycles germanium from manufacturing scrap, fiber optic cables, solar cells, and infrared optical devices at an optical materials facility in Quapaw, Oklahoma, as well as in Belgium.—Maddie Stone, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for solar cell
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