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Flexible solar cell panels
A McMaster University bus shelter has flexible solar panels on its roof.
Researchers at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) have installed two flexible solar cell panels on the curved roof of a campus bus shelter. According to Adrian Kitai, an engineering physics professor who supervised graduate student Wei Zhang on the project, the team cut a brittle solar photovoltaic panel into 720 1-cm2 chips and mounted them onto a polymer backing.
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