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Researchers at New Energy Technologies developing a proprietary solar window technology are claiming scientific and technical breakthroughs, and in a few weeks they plan to unveil a working prototype of the world's first-ever glass window capable of generating electricity.

Conventional solar panels are opaque due to the use of metal coatings and various processes that prevent light from passing through the glass material. New Energy's transparent solar panel technology is based on tiny organic solar cells developed by Dr Xiaomei Jiang at the University of South Florida, which are one-quarter the size of a grain of rice and are able to generate electricity from both natural and artificial light. They also outperform conventional solar cell technology by up to ten times. The University of South Florida Research Foundation licensed Dr Jiang's research results and important commercial processes and applications to New Energy Solar Corporation.

In recent months, researchers at New Energy working on the development of transparent solar power coatings have achieved several important milestones, including demonstrating the use of the of the tiny solar cells to generate electricity and developing a novel, patent-pending process for spraying solar window coatings onto transparent glass using commercially available technologies. The spraying process can be used at room temperatures, eliminating the need for expensive high-temperature or high-vacuum production methods commonly used in conventional solar cell fabrication.

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