Recent Examples on the WebToday, the company, based in this famously overcast corner of southwest China, is the world’s largest producer of solar cells, the components of panels that turn sunlight into electricity.—Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024 As demand for renewable energy soars, materials researchers are seeking ways to create more efficient solar cells.—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2024 China is now the world’s largest producer of solar cells.—Christopher Rugaber, Fortune Asia, 8 Apr. 2024 Even if Beijing were to yield to foreign pressure and make concerted efforts to restrict investments in electric vehicles and batteries, solar cells, and other industries, the companies and manufacturing facilities that benefited from earlier government subsidies would not disappear.—Daniel H. Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2024 Meanwhile, Bell Labs went on to invent the practical solar cell in the 1950s.—Nicholas Wyman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 The solar cells and batteries planned to accompany them would be at risk for catastrophic fires that country firefighters would be unable to contain.—USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024 This tandem approach increases the spectrum of sunlight the solar cell can harvest.—IEEE Spectrum, 12 July 2023 During the day, electricity from the local grid, some produced by nearby fields of solar cells, is used to compress the carbon dioxide into liquid.—Amos Zeeberg, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2024
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